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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who commends Joe Carroll's action in capturing Touhy?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Robert F. Kennedy.
(c) J. Edgar Hoover.
(d) James Carroll.

2. For years what does James wonder about his father?
(a) Why he married his mother.
(b) How his anti-war stance would affect his father.
(c) How he decides to join the FBI.
(d) Why he left the seminary.

3. Mary drives the children to pick Joseph up at night. What does she do on the way home?
(a) Gives them a tour of Washington.
(b) Drives along the Potomac.
(c) Picks up dinner.
(d) Visits friends.

4. What does General Carroll confide in his son?
(a) He misses Chicago.
(b) He wants to be a priest.
(c) He may not come home some night.
(d) He does not enjoy working for the FBI.

5. Of what is this sexual image the opposite in James' life?
(a) She is female.
(b) He has many girlfriends.
(c) Of the Puritanism James is raised in.
(d) He is wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1959, why does the Pope convene an Ecumenical Council?

2. What does he instruct James to do?

3. Joe and Jim wear Democrat campaign pins with what motto to protest Republican "I Like Ike" campaign pins?

4. What are Americans encouraged to do against the Soviet fallout?

5. For what does James' father never forgive himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Joseph's and Mary's roles in their family?

2. What are some of the discussions about use of nuclear weapons in preemptive strikes on China and the Soviet Union that James remembers?

3. How does James, the anti-war priest from a military family feel giving his first sermon?

4. Upon what does James reflect at the end of the chapter, regarding B-52s and nuclear war?

5. What are the two tracks James sees in his life in Wiesbaden?

6. What do Joe and Mary do for their Chicago guests and relatives from Chicago?

7. What is Elvis' significance in this story?

8. How does Roger Touhy who is a Chicago bank robber, kidnapper and killer that have a significant impact on James' father's career?

9. Who is in attendance for his first mass and sermon?

10. How does James' antiwar stance affect his father?

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