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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 - 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspaper article, regarding Joe’s father’s truck business, makes Joe’s dad sick in Chapter 2?
(a) Uncle Bobby has stolen his truck and cannot be found.
(b) Truckers have gone on strike.
(c) His truck has been seized with a load of Canadian whiskey.
(d) Uncle Bobby sold the business.

2. What does new potential parishioner Mr. Lane try to use his money to get from Joe?
(a) Weekly front row seats at church.
(b) A position in the church.
(c) His children’s enrollment in the church school.
(d) His wife a spot in the church choir.

3. Which of Bill’s dinner guests had dropped out of seminary?
(a) Felix.
(b) Potter.
(c) Conklin.
(d) Robert.

4. What is unique about Joe’s parish as mentioned at the start of Chapter 8?
(a) It has the fewest parishioners.
(b) It is the smallest church in the city.
(c) It is one of the only new rectories in the area.
(d) It is the largest church in the state.

5. What does Joe finally tell the new curate he has yet to tell Joe in Chapter 13?
(a) Where he is from.
(b) Who sent him to St. Francis.
(c) His name.
(d) Where he went to seminary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Joe bring Bill until he realizes Bill is not really interested?

2. How many years does Joe spend at Archdiocesan Charities?

3. Where does Joe learn “what the world was like, what he’d be up against if he became a priest” (28)?

4. Why does Joe feel he is being blamed for the Rector’s death in Chapter 4?

5. What does Sister Agatha tell Joe to be instead of a priest of the religious order?

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