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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does he instruct James to do?
(a) Move back to Chicago.
(b) Join the FBI.
(c) Drive his mother and brothers south to Richmond.
(d) Become a priest.

10. In his year at Georgetown University what is the author named?
(a) Mighty Seamen Cadet.
(b) Excellent Army Recruit.
(c) Outstanding Air Force ROTC Cadet.
(d) Superb Navy Cadet.

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

12. The rank General Carroll achieves allows his family to have friendships among what group of people?
(a) The elite of citizen Catholicism.
(b) The poor of citizen Catholicism.
(c) The elite of military Catholicism.
(d) The poor of military Catholocism.

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

14. Of whom will the General depend on James to take care?
(a) "The Church."
(b) "Our country."
(c) "The family."
(d) "Mom and the boys."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. James Carroll reminisces on experiences as a young boy growing up in what city?

2. How does Joe's childhood compare to the social standing he later achieves?

3. Who commends Joe Carroll's action in capturing Touhy?

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

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

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