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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, "Joy to My Youth".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Chicago bank robber, kidnapper and killer has a significant impact on James' father's career?
(a) Ruben Toulouse.
(b) Robert Tolliver.
(c) Roger Touhy.
(d) Richard Thomas.

2. Where does Joe attend six years of night school?
(a) Northwestern School of Medicine.
(b) Loyola Law School.
(c) Loyal School of Medicine.
(d) Northwestern Law School.

3. Who is the newly-ordained priest?
(a) Patrick Hughes.
(b) Joseph Carroll.
(c) The author.
(d) Edgar Hoover.

4. How is James, Joe and Mary's second son, born?
(a) Late.
(b) Oxygen-deprived and in danger of dying but survives.
(c) Premature.
(d) Anemic.

5. President Kennedy reverses nuclear thinking through speeches, the Test Ban Treaty and what else?
(a) The Treaty for Human Liberties.
(b) The United Nations Treaty.
(c) The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
(d) The Nuclear Weaponry Treaty.

Short Answer Questions

1. After receiving his award at Georgetown University, what does the author receive?

2. What has made FDR paralyzed from the waist down?

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

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

5. James recalls that by 1993, he no longer fears nuclear war. Why?

(see the answer key)

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