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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe’s mother say when he says he wants to be either a priest or a businessman?
(a) Joe’s mother tells him to be both, like Father Stock.
(b) Joe’s mother tells him not to be either.
(c) Joe’s mother tells him to be a businessman.
(d) Joe’s mother tells him to be a priest.

2. What does Father Stock do when a homeless man does not pay for his ice cream?
(a) He brings the man to the rectory and gives him money.
(b) He tells him it’s on the house.
(c) He offers to help him get a job.
(d) He slaps it out of the man’s hand.

3. What does Joe bring into his room so he can practice contemplation alone?
(a) A pillow.
(b) A prie-dieu.
(c) A footstool.
(d) A desk.

4. At the start of Chapter 5, who is the other new priest with Joe as Father Stock tells them the order of the next day’s Mass?
(a) Toohey.
(b) Rooney.
(c) Cooney.
(d) Mooney.

5. What does Joe drop on Catfish Toohey’s foot during the Easter play in Chapter 2?
(a) A block of wood.
(b) A microphone.
(c) The cross.
(d) A brick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe find on his ankles at the end of Chapter 6?

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

3. What happens to Joe at the end of Chapter 3, which ends his relationship with Dora and Frances?

4. What does the Rector give to Hrdlicka, which Joe convinces him to give to Joe before he leaves?

5. What does Joe yell out to get the attention of one of the female party goers at his house in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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