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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. FDR is an admired president because of the way he treats what?
(a) His affliction.
(b) The U.S. citizens.
(c) His enemies.
(d) His children.

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

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

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

5. In what are both James and his father entwined?
(a) The curse.
(b) Lives of the military and the priesthood.
(c) The Air Force.
(d) Government scandal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Joe feel about leaving the seminary?

2. What does General Carroll confide in his son?

3. Who symbolically unites the Elvis sexuality and the priestly celibacy?

4. No longer Father James, a priest, what is James Carroll?

5. How does Edward J. Kelly, Chicago's mayor and head of the Democratic Party, bring in millions?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joe Carroll catch Roger Touhy?

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

3. How does Roosevelt's inauguration differ from past presidential inaugurations?

4. What is Joe's attitude about human nature?

5. Why does Joe feel like a disgrace for leaving the seminary?

6. What is known about Francis Cardinal Spellman?

7. Upon what does James Carroll reflect?

8. How do 1950s Americans perceive Pope Pius XII?

9. How does the celebration begin?

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

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