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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. King is wiretapped, and what does his sexual behavior replace as an issue?
(a) Marxist thugs.
(b) Communist infiltration.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) The Republican Party.

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

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

4. When Kennedy is assassinated, what does Johnson take over?
(a) The administration and the war.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The war.
(d) The presidency.

5. What bill does President Johnson propose? He ends his speech with "we shall overcome" and becomes an ally of King's.
(a) Voting Rights Bill.
(b) Equality for All Bill.
(c) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) Desegregation Bill.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Nixon is in office and plans to do what with the Vietnam War?

3. James' appointment with Tate is interrupted by what personal tragedy the night before?

4. Why does Robert Kennedy send federal marshals instead of FBI agents to protect James Meredith at Ole Miss?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why can Michael not be buried by a Catholic priest?

2. How does James feel about his calling as both priest and poet?

3. General Carroll's DIA offers up analysis that the bombing is having no effect on Hanoi's ability to wage war. How do the Joint Chiefs respond?

4. General Carroll is chairman of a Washington dinner to honor Hoover. He asks Father James to offer the benediction. How does Father James react?

5. Who are the Paulist Fathers?

6. What is the General's opinion of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

7. How is James' friendship with Patrick Hughes significant?

8. What does the FBI do to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

9. Describe James' second revolution.

10. How does the text show James is beginning to agree with his friends and associates who think he can follow Patrick's example of self-confidence and risk-taking by skating on his own thin ice?

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