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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, "Capers in Chains".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is Selma, Alabama, in 1965, notorious?
(a) Crime.
(b) Hangings.
(c) A demonstration King leads for black voting rights.
(d) Producing politicians.

2. What are Americans encouraged to do against the Soviet fallout?
(a) Take vitamins.
(b) Build bomb shelters.
(c) Buy gas masks.
(d) Prepare to attack.

3. James hopes his ROTC unit is picked to march in whose parade?
(a) Kennedy's.
(b) Eisenhower's.
(c) Nixon's.
(d) Hoover's.

4. Eisenhower is the first president who wears what kind of hat?
(a) A baseball cap.
(b) A beaver cap.
(c) Homburg.
(d) A top hat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe stay in for twenty-five years rather than the six months originally expected?

2. The Touhy manhunt takes on the wartime symbolism of a hunt for who?

3. To where does the Carroll family return from Germany in 1960?

4. James reads an account of his father's conspiracy to destroy whom?

5. Where does Joe Carroll work to support his family?

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