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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. J. Edgar Hoover persecutes King, and who does he recruit in an unsuccessful attempt to stop King from meeting the Pope?
(a) Joseph Carroll.
(b) Cardinal Spellman.
(c) Father Kelly.
(d) Father Carroll.

2. James' appointment with Tate is interrupted by what personal tragedy the night before?
(a) James' father dies.
(b) The country has gone to war.
(c) His brother has been caught leaving the country and the draft.
(d) One of Tate's newborn twins dies.

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

4. The Cardinal ritually anoints James' hands and wraps them in linen bands that are given to his mother. What power does this give James?
(a) To bless the congregation.
(b) To marry.
(c) Sacramental power to turn bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.
(d) To give the sermon.

5. What does Carroll's DIA report show?
(a) The air campaign has already worked.
(b) The air campaign is working.
(c) The air campaign might work.
(d) The air campaign is not working.

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

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

8. Who reminds James of Air Force chaplains?
(a) His father.
(b) The Rector at the college.
(c) The Paulist Fathers.
(d) The young Father Kelly and his open-hearted camaraderie.

9. To what is the conflict between James and his father limited?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The priesthood.
(c) The Air Force.
(d) The Civil Rights movement.

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

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

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

13. When the General and Mary reunite with James at St. Paul's College and walk up Fourth Street, to where do they walk?
(a) The Lincoln Memorial.
(b) The Catholic Archidiacese.
(c) The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
(d) The Washington Monument.

14. What do James and fellow novices do on the edge of a lake?
(a) Bet when it will freeze over.
(b) Fish.
(c) Contemplate their choice to join the priesthood.
(d) Swim.

15. Whose point of view does James present on the Cavett Show?
(a) His own.
(b) His students'.
(c) His father's.
(d) Father Daniel Berrigan's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why will a local Catholic priest not bury Tate's son, Michael?

3. Who is the FBI resolved to bring down?

4. What does Cardinal Spellman do to Daniel Berrigan?

5. Who is delighted to be a personal guest of Cardinal Spellman's and helps welcome the Pope?

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