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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe do for Father Felix after his sermon in Chapter 16?
(a) Makes him clean the study.
(b) Makes him breakfast.
(c) Has him take care of the accounting.
(d) Critiques his sermon.

2. Why do Joe and Bill begin to visit rectories in person in Chapter 15?
(a) So Joe can show off his new curate.
(b) To find a new place for Bill to work.
(c) To find a new place for Joe to work.
(d) To find Father Felix a new place since he is no longer needed.

3. Where does Joe bring Bill until he realizes Bill is not really interested?
(a) Movies.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) Baseball games.
(d) Bars.

4. Why does Joe think Bill looks down on the people of their parish?
(a) They do not go to church enough.
(b) They are unkind.
(c) They are not poor enough.
(d) They are not wealthy.

5. Who does Lefty say is to blame for reporting him as a VD suspect?
(a) Joe.
(b) Conklin.
(c) Father Felix.
(d) Bill.

6. 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.

7. Tom, the FBI agent, asks Joe why Greg did not do what in Chapter 25?
(a) Join the army, but continue his education as Joe had suggested.
(b) Register as a conscientious objector.
(c) Go to college so he did not have to fight.
(d) Fight for his country.

8. What bothers Joe about the curate’s attire at the start of Chapter 13?
(a) It is too formal.
(b) It is ill-fitting.
(c) It is too casual.
(d) It does not match.

9. What news do they receive just before the retreat is over?
(a) Joe is being relocated.
(b) Father Stock has died.
(c) The assessments for the Archdiocesan Renewal Fund have been sent.
(d) Many of the priests have been fired.

10. What reason does Bill tell Father Felix for why Conklin will not marry the women who picked him up at dinner?
(a) He barely knows her.
(b) He asked and she said no.
(c) He does not love her.
(d) She is married.

11. What does Joe refer to God as in reference to people “giving blindly...for the love of God” (280).
(a) The Great Bookkeeper.
(b) The Great Rip Off.
(c) The Shady Businessman.
(d) The Awful Accountant.

12. Why does Bill say he cannot leave his friends behind?
(a) They will get mad at him.
(b) They are going to another bar.
(c) They are too drunk.
(d) He is having too much fun with them.

13. What reason does Joe give for why Brad was fired from the newspaper?
(a) His writing it too good for that small time paper.
(b) He is too controversial.
(c) Nobody reads the paper anymore.
(d) He is a lousy writer.

14. What reason does Joe give to Dr. Wylie for his need to get tested for VD?
(a) All the pastors are getting tested these days.
(b) He needs to get tested yearly to keep his church.
(c) In case he wants to be a chaplain.
(d) Because the health inspector made him.

15. What baseball team does Joe like to watch?
(a) The Twins.
(b) The White Sox.
(c) The Yankees.
(d) The Red Sox.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who visits Joe regarding Greg in Chapter 25?

3. What does Joe tell Bill about, which he says he finally buried in Chapter 22?

4. What is Bill doing when he visits DPs, which Joe does not think is a good idea?

5. What does a slightly drunk Father Felix chastise Joe for at the dinner party in Chapter 17?

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