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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) Visits friends.
(b) Gives them a tour of Washington.
(c) Drives along the Potomac.
(d) Picks up dinner.

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

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

4. 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.

5. In November 1965, who sets himself on fire at the Pentagon?
(a) A Quaker war-protester.
(b) A Neo-Nazi.
(c) A German soldier.
(d) A hippie from San Francisco.

6. How does this chapter compare to the conflicted and painful opening chapter?
(a) It is a disappointing chapter.
(b) This section is similar in feelng.
(c) It is a sad chapter.
(d) This section is uplifting.

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

8. 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 Navy in Europe.
(d) Chief of Staff of the Air Force in Europe.

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

10. What does General Carroll confide in his son?
(a) He may not come home some night.
(b) He wants to be a priest.
(c) He does not enjoy working for the FBI.
(d) He misses Chicago.

11. Eisenhower is the first president who wears what kind of hat?
(a) A beaver cap.
(b) A top hat.
(c) A baseball cap.
(d) Homburg.

12. 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.

13. How is James, Joe and Mary's second son, born?
(a) Premature.
(b) Late.
(c) Oxygen-deprived and in danger of dying but survives.
(d) Anemic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What belief does the General share with his son?

2. Who does James feel shame to admit is his childhood neighbor on Generals' Row?

3. Why does James feel as if he knows the Pope?

4. What is Father James Carroll celebrating?

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

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