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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Father James spend the summer on retreat in the Holy Land?
(a) To meet with religious leaders.
(b) For a religion conference.
(c) To reconsider his vocation.
(d) To take a long-needed vacation.

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

3. What convinces James to be Patrick Hughes' friend?
(a) Patrick does not give James the option to say no.
(b) He has no other friends.
(c) Patrick is kind and loving.
(d) Patrick's belief in himself.

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

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

6. Senator Eugene McCarthy declares his candidacy for president on what platform?
(a) An anti-war platform.
(b) A war platform.
(c) A green platform.
(d) A segregationist platform.

7. What does Cardinal Spellman do to Daniel Berrigan?
(a) He brings him back from exile.
(b) He finds him a parish in which to reside.
(c) He banishes Berrigan from New York.
(d) He honors him with a fancy dinner.

8. What happens to James when he raises the Confederate flag to celebrate Robert E. Lee's birthday in the Washington Benedictine prep school?
(a) He is expelled.
(b) He is lightly reprimanded.
(c) He is awarded.
(d) He is exalted.

9. Why do countless Air Force chaplains attend in full dress?
(a) James is a general's son.
(b) They are friends with James.
(c) James is in the Air Force.
(d) They have nothing else to do.

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

11. What does Joe Carroll do as James blesses him and lays hands on his head?
(a) He sits silently.
(b) He is filled with the Holy Spirit.
(c) He convulses and silently sobs.
(d) He prays.

12. Who is the host in place of Dick Cavett?
(a) David Letterman.
(b) Jack Black.
(c) Jack Klugman.
(d) Johnny Carson.

13. What begins James' breakdown in shared understanding with his father?
(a) The Civil Rights movement.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) The Paulist order.
(d) His leaving the priesthood.

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

15. Daniel Berrigan becomes a national hero. What is Spellman forced to do?
(a) Find a parish for him.
(b) Retrieve Berrigan from exile.
(c) Honor him with a parade.
(d) Banish Berrigan from New York.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does James read the Bible for the first time?

3. How is Dan Berrigan's hiding place found?

4. To what is the author resistant?

5. The Pope's speech ends in French. What does it translate to in English?

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