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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. Joe junior is struck with what illness?
(a) Lupis.
(b) Muscular dystrophy.
(c) Polio.
(d) Catarachs.

2. James feels his life ends when he enters seminary and that as a child he first hears the word as what?
(a) Cinnamon.
(b) Sedimentary.
(c) Crematory.
(d) Cemetery.

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

4. Who reminds James of Air Force chaplains?
(a) The Paulist Fathers.
(b) The young Father Kelly and his open-hearted camaraderie.
(c) His father.
(d) The Rector at the college.

5. James recalls that by 1993, he no longer fears nuclear war. Why?
(a) The 1960's war-mongers are held off in part by his father's efforts.
(b) He has built a fallout shelter.
(c) The U.S. has destroyed all of its nuclear weapons.
(d) No other nation has nuclear war capabilities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not James' belief but simply taken for granted as the way things are?

2. For what does James' father never forgive himself?

3. Joe and Jim wear Democrat campaign pins with what motto to protest Republican "I Like Ike" campaign pins?

4. Why does Robert Kennedy send federal marshals instead of FBI agents to protect James Meredith at Ole Miss?

5. James recalls when he and his fellow candidates lie prostrate on the cold stone floor of St. Paul the Apostle Church. What ceremony is this?

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