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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, "Holy War".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What changes James' life and leads to a weekly review of two poems?
(a) Patrick Hughes' friendship.
(b) A visit by Allen Tate to the college.
(c) A literature course in school.
(d) A summer writing workshop taught by Allen Tate.

2. What proposes using bomb shelters after a U.S. first strike?
(a) The United States-Russian Compromise of 1965.
(b) The Embargo Act.
(c) The 1961 Burris Memorandum.
(d) The Bay of Pigs.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the ever-present symbol and embodiment of the Catholic Church?

2. What does James recollect about slaves?

3. Of what is Joe junior a sign?

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

5. James is in college now and working as what for the summer?

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