View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does James keep secret that he met and was kissed by Pope John XXIII?

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

3. Who is the host in place of Dick Cavett?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Ritual requires a newly-ordained priest perform his first priestly blessing on his parents. How do his parents react?

2. His Holiness addresses the United Nations for its twentieth-year celebration.

3. Who are the Paulist Fathers?

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. Describe James' second revolution.

6. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

7. 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?

8. Why does James feel out of place among the working-class Irish novices?

9. 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. How does this trip help him make a decision about being a priest?

10. Why does James have a hard time promising to obey and respect Cardinal Cooke and his successors?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pope Paul VI shocks many in government positions and is one of many who protest the Vietnam War.

Part 1) How does Pope Paul VI shock those in government?

Part 2) How do others react to what the Pope preaches?

Part 3) What other people promote peace?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

James' and his father's differing opinions permanently affect their relationship.

Part 1) How is their relationship when James is young?

Part 2) What causes the rift in their relationship?

Part 3) Why are they unable to heal their relationship?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 973 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample