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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who becomes famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers?
(a) James Carroll.
(b) Daniel Ellsberg.
(c) J. Edgar Hoover.
(d) Cardinal Spellman.

2. Who arrests James for protesting Igloo White at Hansom Air Force Base?
(a) The Secret Service.
(b) The Air Force.
(c) The CIA.
(d) The FBI.

3. James sees King once in person, and what is his opinion of King?
(a) He can not be trusted.
(b) King is the only public figure to which he is personally devoted.
(c) He is a liar and a coward.
(d) His father is right in believing King is void of all morals.

4. What does James intern as in Atlanta?
(a) An Air Force cadet.
(b) A therapist.
(c) A lay assistant.
(d) A pastoral counselor.

5. What does Carroll's DIA report show?
(a) The air campaign has already worked.
(b) The air campaign is working.
(c) The air campaign might work.
(d) The air campaign is not working.

6. For what are students at this university notorious?
(a) Being insubordinate.
(b) Being violent.
(c) Being pro-war.
(d) Being anti-war.

7. How does James feel at his ordination?
(a) He is happy.
(b) He is fearful.
(c) He feels betrayed.
(d) He is unsure.

8. What does General Carroll ask of Father James?
(a) To offer the benediction at a dinner to honor Hoover.
(b) To support his beliefs.
(c) To change his views on the war.
(d) To leave the priesthood.

9. J. Edgar Hoover persecutes King, and who does he recruit in an unsuccessful attempt to stop King from meeting the Pope?
(a) Father Kelly.
(b) Father Carroll.
(c) Joseph Carroll.
(d) Cardinal Spellman.

10. Despite years of religious training as an altar boy, catechism and religion classes, how is James regarding the Bible and theology?
(a) Misunderstood.
(b) Illiterate.
(c) Confused.
(d) Knowdedgeable.

11. How does James feel among the working-class Irish novices?
(a) He often fights them.
(b) Out of place.
(c) He feels at home.
(d) He befriends many of them.

12. Who does Cardinal Spellman meet in 1950?
(a) President Johnson.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Ngo Dinh Diem.
(d) Secretary of Defense McNamara.

13. What do President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara not know about Spellman?
(a) He is not favored by the Pope.
(b) He helps instigate the war.
(c) He will be ordaining James.
(d) He plays golf.

14. James is ordained in 1969, and assigned to the campus ministry at what university?
(a) New York University.
(b) Northwestern University.
(c) Boston University.
(d) The University of Virginia.

15. What does James' mother refuse to recognize about the war?
(a) That her husband is against the war.
(b) The war is unjust.
(c) That it may embarrass James.
(d) That is is ending.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom Dooley writes a book inferring what about Vietnam?

2. What does James return to Washington as a seminarian to study?

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

4. What does Mary Carroll remind her son about Cardinal Spellman?

5. What does Joe Carroll do as James blesses him and lays hands on his head?

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