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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 - 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Joe no longer do “lest God and he both be bored” (45)?
(a) He no longer forces himself to meditate.
(b) He no longer prays.
(c) He no longer goes to confession.
(d) He no longer writes to God.

3. What does Father Demetrius spend most of the retreat talking about?
(a) Stories from the penitentiary.
(b) The attendance problem at his conferences.
(c) Stories from his childhood.
(d) The decline of the priesthood.

4. Joe tells Bill that the priesthood is what, rather than a hundred-yard dash?
(a) A walk in the park.
(b) A Sunday stroll.
(c) A sack race.
(d) A marathon.

5. What does the Archbishop tell Joe he would like to do soon when they run into each other at the barbershop in Chapter 28?
(a) Make a large donation.
(b) Cut Joe’s hair himself.
(c) Bless his new rectory.
(d) Be a hero like Joe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Greg according to the postcard Joe receives from him in Chapter 25?

2. Who visits Joe to tell him about his visit from the Board of Health regarding VD?

3. Who is sent to the hospital just before the retreat’s end in Chapter 19?

4. What does Joe begin to carry to fend off Boots?

5. What does Joe’s mother say when he says he wants to be either a priest or a businessman?

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