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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. Mary drives the children to pick Joseph up at night. What does she do on the way home?
(a) Picks up dinner.
(b) Gives them a tour of Washington.
(c) Drives along the Potomac.
(d) Visits friends.

2. For what are students at this university notorious?
(a) Being anti-war.
(b) Being insubordinate.
(c) Being pro-war.
(d) Being violent.

3. What does James learn about religious faith?
(a) It is healing.
(b) It involves suffering and unhappiness.
(c) It brings families together.
(d) It helps one understand life.

4. James fondly recalls what intimate moments alone with his father?
(a) Riding in automobiles.
(b) In their Chicago home.
(c) In in father's office.
(d) In Germany at his football games.

5. James is ordained in 1969, and assigned to the campus ministry at what university?
(a) Northwestern University.
(b) New York University.
(c) The University of Virginia.
(d) Boston University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to James when he raises the Confederate flag to celebrate Robert E. Lee's birthday in the Washington Benedictine prep school?

2. When the General and Mary reunite with James at St. Paul's College and walk up Fourth Street, to where do they walk?

3. What does Mary Carroll remind her son about Cardinal Spellman?

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

5. No longer Father James, a priest, what is James Carroll?

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