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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, "The Imposition".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Cardinal ritually anoints James' hands and wraps them in linen bands that are given to his mother. What power does this give James?
(a) Sacramental power to turn bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.
(b) To give the sermon.
(c) To bless the congregation.
(d) To marry.

2. Joe junior is struck with what illness?
(a) Muscular dystrophy.
(b) Polio.
(c) Lupis.
(d) Catarachs.

3. Who is excommunicated?
(a) Some traditional Benedictines.
(b) Some modernists Bendictines.
(c) Some modernist Paulists.
(d) Some traditional Paulists.

4. Where does the author's mother take him as a two-year-old along with his four-year-old brother, Joe?
(a) To Disney World.
(b) FDR's presidential inauguration.
(c) To New York City.
(d) To Chicago to visit relatives.

5. What does James do a week before entering the novitiate?
(a) He begins to write a religious-based novel.
(b) He dates the Vice-President's daughter and tries unsuccessfully to have sex.
(c) He meets with Allen Tate to show him several of his poems.
(d) He prays about what his calling truly is.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the author flash back?

2. Despite the cold, James is pleased this president does not do this.

3. What does Joe junior undergo a dozen of over the next fifteen years?

4. These priests focus on a defensive Catholic Church and a hostile American culture.

5. James' appointment with Tate is interrupted by what personal tragedy the night before?

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