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

2. 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.

3. Who gets upset with Joe during a class gathering when Joe says that the “priest’s life....has to be rooted in contemplation” (71)?
(a) Rooney.
(b) Mooney.
(c) Toohey.
(d) Cooney.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What occupation is Joe considering at the start of Chapter 2?

2. Why does Bob Rooney take on most of the responsibilities at his parish?

3. What does Joe regret he says about Father Slaag during a poker game at St. Isodoer’s in Chapter 6?

4. What does Delbert Freeman yell out about Joe just before the sack race in Chapter 2?

5. 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?

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