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

2. How does Joe feel about leaving the seminary?
(a) Like a disgrace.
(b) He is unsure.
(c) He is confident.
(d) He is sad.

3. What proposes using bomb shelters after a U.S. first strike?
(a) The Bay of Pigs.
(b) The Embargo Act.
(c) The 1961 Burris Memorandum.
(d) The United States-Russian Compromise of 1965.

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

5. No longer Father James, a priest, what is James Carroll?
(a) An engineer.
(b) A painter.
(c) A writer.
(d) A businessman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his year at Georgetown University what is the author named?

2. Who reflects a new image of priests than James and his mother remember?

3. World War II is ongoing, and where is Joe assigned?

4. Joe and Mary Carroll have how many brothers and sisters?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does James realize about his desire to enter the seminary?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Upon what does James Carroll reflect?

9. Why is FDR an admired president?

10. How does James, the anti-war priest from a military family feel giving his first sermon?

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