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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Joe and his family leave Chicago for FBI training. After training, where are they assigned?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Indianapolis.

3. In Irish Chicago of that day, what does a refusal to become a priest after twelve years of seminary make Joe Carroll?
(a) A thief.
(b) A spoiled priest.
(c) A mean-spirited priest.
(d) A cheat.

4. Who commends Joe Carroll's action in capturing Touhy?
(a) Robert F. Kennedy.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) J. Edgar Hoover.
(d) James Carroll.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who confirms his appreciation of Joe Carroll by assigning him to Washington as chief of kidnapping and bank robbery investigations for the entire Bureau?

3. What has made FDR paralyzed from the waist down?

4. What is Father James Carroll celebrating?

5. What are Americans encouraged to do against the Soviet fallout?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joe become a part of Kelly's political hypocrisy?

2. How do Joseph and Mary react to Joe junior's contraction of polio?

3. What are some of the discussions about use of nuclear weapons in preemptive strikes on China and the Soviet Union that James remembers?

4. How does James' antiwar stance affect his father?

5. What is Elvis' significance in this story?

6. What government position does Joe Carroll have in Europe?

7. What do Joe and Mary do for their Chicago guests and relatives from Chicago?

8. How does James honor his father in this chapter?

9. How does James perceive his family's time in Germany?

10. How is the Carroll family's experience in Washington, D.C.?

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