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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. Where does James begin seminary training in 1963?
(a) St. Paul's College.
(b) St. Mark's College.
(c) St. Francis College.
(d) College of the Benedictine.

2. What does he instruct James to do?
(a) Move back to Chicago.
(b) Drive his mother and brothers south to Richmond.
(c) Become a priest.
(d) Join the FBI.

3. To what does the author flash back?
(a) His high school girlfriend.
(b) His recent experience with Allen Tate in Tennessee.
(c) His childhood riding in an automobile with his father.
(d) His years in Germany.

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

5. How is Joe's father, "Dike" Carroll, occasionally employed?
(a) As a sailor on Lake Michigan.
(b) As a body guard.
(c) As a janitor in a South Side ward house.
(d) As a butler in a South Side ward house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author's mother take him as a two-year-old along with his four-year-old brother, Joe?

2. James Carroll reminisces on experiences as a young boy growing up in what city?

3. What happens as James and his father are golfing on the base golf course in Puerto Rico?

4. How many generals attend the reception following at the Officers' Club?

5. James feels his life ends when he enters seminary and that as a child he first hears the word as what?

(see the answer key)

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