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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many years later does James break his vow and leave the priesthood?
(a) Five years later.
(b) Twelve years later.
(c) Fifteen years later.
(d) Two years later.

3. How many generals attend the reception following at the Officers' Club?
(a) Five.
(b) Two hundred.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Only one.

4. Who is the newly-ordained priest?
(a) Patrick Hughes.
(b) Edgar Hoover.
(c) The author.
(d) Joseph Carroll.

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

6. Where does Joe Carroll work to support his family?
(a) In a bank.
(b) In the Chicago stockyards.
(c) For the Chicago Tribune.
(d) In a bar.

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

8. Who represents Catholic Irish-American ambition?
(a) Spellman.
(b) Chess.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Carroll.

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

10. Who does James believe as a young boy to be virtuous?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) The Pope.

11. What has made FDR paralyzed from the waist down?
(a) Polio.
(b) An automobile accident.
(c) A riding accident.
(d) Meningitis.

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

13. James hopes his ROTC unit is picked to march in whose parade?
(a) Kennedy's.
(b) Hoover's.
(c) Nixon's.
(d) Eisenhower's.

14. Who is founding director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in charge of enemy counts and evaluating targets in Vietnam?
(a) Lieutenant-General Brian Carroll.
(b) Lieutenant-General Brent Carroll.
(c) Lieutenant-General James Carroll.
(d) Lieutenant-General Joseph F. Carroll.

15. What does James believe the B-52's utility and longevity discourage?
(a) The Air Force from using them.
(b) Other countries to attack us.
(c) War.
(d) More destructive bombers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What proposes using bomb shelters after a U.S. first strike?

2. Joe and Mary Carroll have how many brothers and sisters?

3. What does being a priest preaching his first sermon make apparent about James?

4. To where does the Carroll family return from Germany in 1960?

5. How does James interpret the experiences of their lives in Christian terms?

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