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

2. How does Edward J. Kelly, Chicago's mayor and head of the Democratic Party, bring in millions?
(a) He invents the automatic voting machine.
(b) He works as a philanthropist.
(c) He employs many to help raise funds.
(d) Through illegal gambling and other vices run out of city hall, police stations and ward offices.

3. Who confirms his appreciation of Joe Carroll by assigning him to Washington as chief of kidnapping and bank robbery investigations for the entire Bureau?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Robert F. Kennedy.
(d) James Carroll.

4. James' appointment with Tate is interrupted by what personal tragedy the night before?
(a) His brother has been caught leaving the country and the draft.
(b) One of Tate's newborn twins dies.
(c) James' father dies.
(d) The country has gone to war.

5. Who does James feel shame to admit is his childhood neighbor on Generals' Row?
(a) Father Frank Miller.
(b) Robert F. Kennedy.
(c) President Herbert Hoover.
(d) General Curtis Lemay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does General Carroll confide in his son?

2. What is one reason why James receives the ROTC award?

3. How is James, Joe and Mary's second son, born?

4. What does Joe Carroll hoard?

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

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