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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 3 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occupation is Joe considering at the start of Chapter 2?
(a) Accountant.
(b) Pastor.
(c) Business man.
(d) Barber.

2. Which priest takes Joe around at the race and has a few too many drinks?
(a) Father Day.
(b) Father Stock.
(c) Father Freeman.
(d) Father Bill.

3. Who does Joe ask why God does bad things at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) His pastor.
(b) His mother.
(c) Ivy.
(d) Uncle Bobby.

4. What is Father Stock’s nickname at church?
(a) Stocks and Bonds.
(b) Father Money.
(c) Father Dough.
(d) Dollar Bill.

5. Who wrote the novel Wheat that Springeth Green?
(a) J.D. Salinger.
(b) J.P. Flowers.
(c) J.F. Powers.
(d) J.D. Powers

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father Stock do when a homeless man does not pay for his ice cream?

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

3. What was the new pastor talking about when young Joe asked his father what she wants in church?

4. Who does Joe feel are “in a class by themselves...[having] the power to turn water and wine into [the Lord’s] body” (10).

5. Who carries Joe upstairs to his room in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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