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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does James thank "Mr. Johnson" for ending the war?
(a) On the telephone.
(b) In person.
(c) During a meal at the White House.
(d) He writes a personal letter.

2. Who does His Holiness address for its twentieth-year celebration?
(a) The United Nations.
(b) The Paulist Fathers.
(c) The Catholic Church of America.
(d) The NAACP.

3. God, government, and what else keep James in conflict?
(a) His calling.
(b) Girls.
(c) Writing.
(d) Poetry.

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

5. Why does James keep secret that he met and was kissed by Pope John XXIII?
(a) No one is allowed to know.
(b) He feels guilty about advantages he receives.
(c) He is shy.
(d) He does not think anyone would believe him.

6. James recalls when he and his fellow candidates lie prostrate on the cold stone floor of St. Paul the Apostle Church. What ceremony is this?
(a) The ordination ceremony.
(b) The Passover ceremony.
(c) Reformation Sunday.
(d) The Holy Eucharist.

7. On whom does ritual require a newly-ordained priest to first perform his priestly blessing?
(a) Other priests.
(b) Members of the congregation.
(c) On his parents.
(d) His siblings.

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

9. What is not James' belief but simply taken for granted as the way things are?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) The military.

10. How does the General refer to war protesters?
(a) As "hippies."
(b) As "kooks."
(c) As weirdos."
(d) As "crayzies."

11. 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) Cardinal Spellman.
(c) Joseph Carroll.
(d) Father Carroll.

12. James is a boy in southern Alexandria and raised in what traditions?
(a) American.
(b) Virginian.
(c) Confederate.
(d) Military.

13. On what does James learn Catholic beliefs in scripture, events and characters are based?
(a) Myth and fiction, not divine intervention.
(b) The ocult.
(c) The Holy Trinity.
(d) Divine intervention, not myth and fiction.

14. Why will a local Catholic priest not bury Tate's son, Michael?
(a) Michael is not actually Tate's son.
(b) Tate is a divorced Catholic.
(c) Tate is not a Catholic.
(d) The Protestants are fighting to bury him.

15. To what is the conflict between James and his father limited?
(a) The priesthood.
(b) The Civil Rights movement.
(c) The Air Force.
(d) The Vietnam War.

Short Answer Questions

1. James feels his life ends when he enters seminary and that as a child he first hears the word as what?

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

3. What changes James' life and leads to a weekly review of two poems?

4. Who is excommunicated?

5. Why does James organize a citizens' tribunal to indict J. Edgar Hoover?

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