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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. World War II is ongoing, and where is Joe assigned?

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

3. James Carroll reminisces on experiences as a young boy growing up in what city?

4. Joe and Jim wear Democrat campaign pins with what motto to protest Republican "I Like Ike" campaign pins?

5. What has made FDR paralyzed from the waist down?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does General Carroll share with his son regarding war?

2. What are Joseph's and Mary's roles in their family?

3. What does the B-52 Bomber symbolize to James?

4. How is the Carroll family's experience in Washington, D.C.?

5. How does Joe Carroll catch Roger Touhy?

6. How does James, the anti-war priest from a military family feel giving his first sermon?

7. How do Joseph and Mary react to Joe junior's contraction of polio?

8. Why is FDR an admired president?

9. How does James' antiwar stance affect his father?

10. How does Roosevelt's inauguration differ from past presidential inaugurations?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Paulist Fathers are a unique American order of priests.

Part 1) Who are the Paulist Fathers?

Part 2) How are they unique?

Part 3) Why are they charged with crimes against the church?

Essay Topic 2

Father James continues to have struggles with his vocation and decides to spend the summer on retreat in the Holy Land to reconsider his vocation.

Part 1) What does James do in the Holy Land?

Part 2) Who does he meet? How does he help him in his decision-making?

Part 3) How does James resolve this struggle?

Essay Topic 3

James goes through three revolutions of change.

Part 1) What are the three revolutions?

Part 2) Give examples from the text that show these revolutions.

Part 3) How do these revolutions influence him later in life?

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