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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, "The Last Word".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is not James' belief but simply taken for granted as the way things are?
(a) The military.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Slavery.

2. What happens to the General in 1991?
(a) He remembers James.
(b) He passes away.
(c) He goes into a coma.
(d) He succumbs to Alzheimer's.

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

4. Of what is Joe junior a sign?
(a) There is a God.
(b) Of shame.
(c) God's approval for the neighbors to see.
(d) God's disapproval.

5. What must Father Carroll do to be released from his vows?
(a) Denounce Catholicism.
(b) Get married.
(c) Confess serious violations.
(d) Write a letter of resignation to the Pope.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does James read the Bible for the first time?

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

3. What in Washington transforms James' resistance into a resolution because he is faithful to John XXIII and embodies his vision for the Church?

4. Who is founding director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in charge of enemy counts and evaluating targets in Vietnam?

5. J. Edgar Hoover persecutes King, and who does he recruit in an unsuccessful attempt to stop King from meeting the Pope?

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