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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, "The Imposition".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe stay in for twenty-five years rather than the six months originally expected?
(a) The FBI.
(b) The Air Force.
(c) The Secret Service.
(d) The Navy.

2. To what does the author flash back?
(a) His recent experience with Allen Tate in Tennessee.
(b) His childhood riding in an automobile with his father.
(c) His high school girlfriend.
(d) His years in Germany.

3. What changes James' life and leads to a weekly review of two poems?
(a) A literature course in school.
(b) Patrick Hughes' friendship.
(c) A summer writing workshop taught by Allen Tate.
(d) A visit by Allen Tate to the college.

4. The Cardinal ritually anoints James' hands and wraps them in linen bands that are given to his mother. What power does this give James?
(a) Sacramental power to turn bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.
(b) To marry.
(c) To bless the congregation.
(d) To give the sermon.

5. Who is excommunicated?
(a) Some modernists Bendictines.
(b) Some traditional Paulists.
(c) Some modernist Paulists.
(d) Some traditional Benedictines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do countless Air Force chaplains attend in full dress?

2. What does Joe junior undergo a dozen of over the next fifteen years?

3. These priests focus on a defensive Catholic Church and a hostile American culture.

4. To what is the author resistant?

5. What does Joseph believe his own pride causes?

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