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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Dan Berrigan's hiding place found?
(a) Through the Pope.
(b) Through the assistance of the Catholic church.
(c) Through James' confessions.
(d) Through the letters from his brother, Philip.

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

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

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

5. Where is no one allowed to truly speak his mind?
(a) In the Air Force.
(b) At the Carrolls'.
(c) In the government.
(d) In the FBI.

6. 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 take a long-needed vacation.
(d) To reconsider his vocation.

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

8. James reads an account of his father's conspiracy to destroy whom?
(a) The Pope.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) The Catholic Church of America.

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

10. To what is the author resistant?
(a) The military.
(b) Authority.
(c) His father.
(d) Christianity.

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

12. Robert Kennedy encourages James saying priests are needed in the streets. Who is already in the streets?
(a) The ministers.
(b) The politicians.
(c) The devil.
(d) The people.

13. Tom Dooley writes a book inferring what about Vietnam?
(a) It is a war of religions.
(b) Vietnam is a country full of pagans.
(c) Vietnam is a Communist country under Catholic siege.
(d) Vietnam is a Catholic country under Communist siege.

14. By the will of whom does Diem rule Vietnam?
(a) Buddha.
(b) God.
(c) Shiva.
(d) Allah.

15. To what does the author flash back?
(a) His years in Germany.
(b) His high school girlfriend.
(c) His childhood riding in an automobile with his father.
(d) His recent experience with Allen Tate in Tennessee.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does James recollect about slaves?

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

4. When Kennedy is assassinated, what does Johnson take over?

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

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