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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does James learn about religious faith?
(a) It involves suffering and unhappiness.
(b) It helps one understand life.
(c) It is healing.
(d) It brings families together.

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

3. His senior year Homecoming Day game is with what city?
(a) Stockholm.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Hamburg.

4. How does Edward J. Kelly, Chicago's mayor and head of the Democratic Party, bring in millions?
(a) He invents the automatic voting machine.
(b) He employs many to help raise funds.
(c) He works as a philanthropist.
(d) Through illegal gambling and other vices run out of city hall, police stations and ward offices.

5. James and Joe junior accompany their father to what base in Puerto Rico?
(a) Fort Knox.
(b) Fort Bragg.
(c) Ramey Air Force Base.
(d) Fort Benjamin Harrison.

6. Where does the author secretly throw his Georgetown University prize?
(a) In the Potomac.
(b) Into the swamp behind the seminary.
(c) In the woods behind the seminary.
(d) In the Atlantic ocean.

7. Where does James attend school?
(a) In the charter school system.
(b) Grade school at St. Mary's School and begins high school in the Priory School at a Benedictine monastery.
(c) In the Washington, D.C. public schools.
(d) In private military academies.

8. What type of student is James in high school?
(a) A member of Glee Club.
(b) A musician.
(c) A "C" student.
(d) An "A" student.

9. 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 Disney World.
(c) To Chicago to visit relatives.
(d) To New York City.

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

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

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

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

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

15. Joe, now General Carroll, is serving in what position?
(a) Major General of the Air Force in Europe.
(b) Major General of the Air Force in Europe.
(c) Chief of Staff of the Air Force in Europe.
(d) Chief of staff of the Navy in Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joe feel about leaving the seminary?

2. He finishes preaching his first sermon by reaffirming General Lemay's SAC motto. What is that motto?

3. What is a highlight of James' parent's life?

4. What is one reason why James receives the ROTC award?

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

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