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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is a sexual image ideal for the author?
(a) Elvis Presley.
(b) Marilyn Monroe.
(c) Frank Sinatra.
(d) J. Edgar Hoover.

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

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

4. Joe and Mary Carroll have how many brothers and sisters?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty.

5. Who believes human nature is incapable of good?
(a) An English Transcendentalist.
(b) A Scottish Methodist.
(c) A French Boiserrie.
(d) An Irish Jansenist.

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

7. For years what does James wonder about his father?
(a) Why he married his mother.
(b) How he decides to join the FBI.
(c) Why he left the seminary.
(d) How his anti-war stance would affect his father.

8. Silence during their ride home does what between James and his father?
(a) Seals the bond.
(b) Causes a rift between to two.
(c) Leaves unanswered questions.
(d) Makes them uncomfortable.

9. The Touhy manhunt takes on the wartime symbolism of a hunt for who?
(a) Communists.
(b) Nazis.
(c) Russians.
(d) Hitler.

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

11. Where does the author's mother take him as a two-year-old along with his four-year-old brother, Joe?
(a) FDR's presidential inauguration.
(b) To Chicago to visit relatives.
(c) To Disney World.
(d) To New York City.

12. Why does James feel as if he knows the Pope?
(a) He has met him several times.
(b) He sees the Pope's picture everywhere.
(c) He sees him on television.
(d) He hears about him every day at school.

13. 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) The U.S. begins the Vietnam War.
(c) James tells his father he is joining the priesthood.
(d) A fleet of B-52 bombers lands.

14. Who reflects a new image of priests than James and his mother remember?
(a) The Paulists.
(b) The priests in the Wiesbaden church.
(c) Young chaplains in Wiesbaden.
(d) Monsignor Chess and his associates.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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?

4. James is in college now and working as what for the summer?

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

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