View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Joe feel are “in a class by themselves...[having] the power to turn water and wine into [the Lord’s] body” (10).
(a) Saints.
(b) Priests.
(c) The Blessed Mother.
(d) Nuns.

2. 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) Cooney.
(b) Toohey.
(c) Rooney.
(d) Mooney.

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

4. Where does Joe go for confession with Father Day in Chapter 8?
(a) Father Day’s parish.
(b) The hospital.
(c) Joe’s rectory.
(d) His study.

5. What does 15-year-old Joe begin to do in his cellar over the summer in Chapter 3?
(a) Write about his life.
(b) Drink, smoke, and look at pornography.
(c) Pray.
(d) Play music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe do at first when Father Stock hands him the basket to take up a collection?

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

3. Why does Joe feel his appointment at Holy Faith makes sense?

4. What does Joe’s seminary class debate during their first meeting after graduation?

5. What does Joe discover about Father Van Slaag which makes him think he is a saint?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Father Stock tell Joe he will be doing during his first Mass in Chapter 5, and how does Joe feel about this?

2. Describe Joe’s confession to Father Day in Chapter 8.

3. What happens when Joe contracts and STD at the end of Chapter 3?

4. What does Brad call Joe asking if he will have his parishioners pray for in Chapter 9?

5. Why does Sister Agatha tell Joe about being a a secular priest rather than a priest in the religious order?

6. How does Joe behave at the retreat in Chapter 4?

7. What is Joe’s relationship with the Rector’s hair shirt in Chapter 4?

8. What does Brad’s pastor tell Joe at the end of Chapter 9?

9. Who is Dora, introduced in Chapter 3?

10. What does Ed Butler discuss with Joe in Chapter 7, and what is Joe’s advice?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 805 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample