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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. For what is Selma, Alabama, in 1965, notorious?

2. What does James' mother refuse to recognize about the war?

3. Who becomes to James, for the first time, a man with whom he can identify?

4. James is ordained in 1969, and assigned to the campus ministry at what university?

5. Of what does James believe Joe Carroll embodies the motto?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

6. Why does the President begin to reject escalation of the war and refuse any use of nuclear weapons?

7. Why is General Carroll successful in his government position?

8. 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?

9. What is the tone difference between Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover?

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

When James is growing up, the Catholic Church is still hiding its accounts of sexual immorality.

Part 1) How does James deal with his struggle with his sexuality?

Part 2) How does he view the religious men around him? How they aid him in his choices?

Part 3) Predict James' reaction to the priests he knows, if he had learned about their breaking of the vow of celibacy. How might this knowledge have affected his decisions?

Essay Topic 2

Cardinal Cooke asks candidates to promise to obey and respect him and his successors as he enfolds their hands.

Part 1) Why does James have a hard time accepting this?

Part 2) How does this keep power out of the hands of individual priests?

Part 3) Imagine how you would feel in his position. How would you have handled this situation?

Essay Topic 3

Walter Cronkite declares the war will end in stalemate.

Part 1) What does the President learn from this message?

Part 2) What does the President do because of this message?

Part 3) What does this show about the power of the civilian population?

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