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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, "The Last Word".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is Selma, Alabama, in 1965, notorious?
(a) Producing politicians.
(b) A demonstration King leads for black voting rights.
(c) Crime.
(d) Hangings.

2. Nixon is in office and plans to do what with the Vietnam War?
(a) Slowly remove soldiers from Vietnam.
(b) Escalate it.
(c) End it.
(d) Ask other countries for assistance.

3. What has made FDR paralyzed from the waist down?
(a) Meningitis.
(b) A riding accident.
(c) Polio.
(d) An automobile accident.

4. For several days with what does the General fills pages of construction paper?
(a) The name James.
(b) The word God.
(c) Scribble lines.
(d) The word Mary.

5. What does Joe Carroll do as James blesses him and lays hands on his head?
(a) He sits silently.
(b) He prays.
(c) He convulses and silently sobs.
(d) He is filled with the Holy Spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mary drives the children to pick Joseph up at night. What does she do on the way home?

2. Where does Joe attend six years of night school?

3. On whom does ritual require a newly-ordained priest to first perform his priestly blessing?

4. Despite the cold, James is pleased this president does not do this.

5. The author reflects on perceptions that he and his father give up worlds they love. Why?

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