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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To where does the Carroll family return from Germany in 1960?
(a) New York.
(b) Boston.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Washington.

3. Where does Joe attend six years of night school?
(a) Loyal School of Medicine.
(b) Northwestern School of Medicine.
(c) Loyola Law School.
(d) Northwestern Law School.

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

5. What does Joe junior undergo a dozen of over the next fifteen years?
(a) Therapy sessions.
(b) Acupuncture appointments.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) Operations.

6. What is Father James Carroll celebrating?
(a) A baptism.
(b) Christmas.
(c) The birth of his daughter.
(d) His first mass and giving his first sermon.

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

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

9. Where is the Chapel located?
(a) On the west side of the Potomac River.
(b) On the east side of the Potomac River.
(c) On the south side of the Potomac River.
(d) On the north side of the Potomac River.

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

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

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

13. What is one reason why James receives the ROTC award?
(a) No one else deserves the award.
(b) He bribes the Commander.
(c) He wears his father's shoes shined by the General's orderlies.
(d) He is a good pilot.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Joe Carroll work to support his family?

2. Joe and his family leave Chicago for FBI training. After training, where are they assigned?

3. Where does James attend school?

4. What do the Catholics call the Chapel?

5. James and Joe junior accompany their father to what base in Puerto Rico?

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