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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does being a priest preaching his first sermon make apparent about James?
(a) His fear.
(b) His cowardice.
(c) His power.
(d) His love of his country.

2. What does Joseph believe his own pride causes?
(a) His family's unhappiness.
(b) His wealth.
(c) His son's disease.
(d) Accidents.

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

4. James is in college now and working as what for the summer?
(a) A football coach.
(b) An FBI cryptanalyst's aid.
(c) An Air Force aid.
(d) A pastor.

5. No longer Father James, a priest, what is James Carroll?
(a) An engineer.
(b) A businessman.
(c) A painter.
(d) A writer.

6. Who prophecies a valley full of vast quantities of dry bones?
(a) Elijah.
(b) Elisha.
(c) Esther.
(d) Ezekiel.

7. How does James interpret the experiences of their lives in Christian terms?
(a) As the cross they must bear.
(b) Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
(c) They no not what they do.
(d) Those without sin cast the first stone.

8. What does Joe stay in for twenty-five years rather than the six months originally expected?
(a) The Secret Service.
(b) The Air Force.
(c) The Navy.
(d) The FBI.

9. What happens as James and his father are golfing on the base golf course in Puerto Rico?
(a) James tells his father he is marrying Lexa.
(b) A fleet of B-52 bombers lands.
(c) The U.S. begins the Vietnam War.
(d) James tells his father he is joining the priesthood.

10. How does James get to know Monsignor Chess?
(a) He teaches at James' school.
(b) James caddies for him and his father.
(c) He is the priest at James' church.
(d) James' works for him in the rectory.

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

12. What is outlined in this chapter of background history?
(a) Joe Carroll's childhood.
(b) Joe Carroll's childhood until his marriage.
(c) Joe Carroll's life up through the birth of Joe Carroll Jr.
(d) Joe Carroll's life up through the birth of James Carroll.

13. Who symbolically unites the Elvis sexuality and the priestly celibacy?
(a) Monsigneur Chess.
(b) The Young nuns.
(c) The Air Force chaplains.
(d) The new Pope.

14. World War II is ongoing, and where is Joe assigned?
(a) Private First Class.
(b) U.S. Cavalry.
(c) Selective Service enforcement.
(d) Secret Service.

15. For what does James' father never forgive himself?
(a) Planning to join the priesthood.
(b) Leaving the seminary.
(c) Working for the Air Force.
(d) Becoming a member of the FBI.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Joe attend six years of night school?

2. The Touhy manhunt takes on the wartime symbolism of a hunt for who?

3. What does General Carroll confide in his son?

4. What does Joe junior undergo a dozen of over the next fifteen years?

5. What does James learn about religious faith?

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