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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 take a long-needed vacation.
(b) To meet with religious leaders.
(c) To reconsider his vocation.
(d) For a religion conference.

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

3. Who arrests James for protesting Igloo White at Hansom Air Force Base?
(a) The FBI.
(b) The Secret Service.
(c) The CIA.
(d) The Air Force.

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

5. Despite years of religious training as an altar boy, catechism and religion classes, how is James regarding the Bible and theology?
(a) Illiterate.
(b) Knowdedgeable.
(c) Misunderstood.
(d) Confused.

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

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

8. God, government, and what else keep James in conflict?
(a) Writing.
(b) Girls.
(c) Poetry.
(d) His calling.

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

10. James sees King once in person, and what is his opinion of King?
(a) He is a liar and a coward.
(b) His father is right in believing King is void of all morals.
(c) King is the only public figure to which he is personally devoted.
(d) He can not be trusted.

11. What does the General call Martin Luther King?
(a) A religious role model.
(b) A leader of the free.
(c) The most notorious liar in America.
(d) A great man.

12. 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.

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

14. What does Mary Carroll remind her son about Cardinal Spellman?
(a) He is not favored by the Pope.
(b) He is looking for a golf caddy.
(c) He is a good friend.
(d) He is looking forward to ordaining James.

15. King is wiretapped, and what does his sexual behavior replace as an issue?
(a) Marxist thugs.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) Communist infiltration.
(d) The Vietnam War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is this ceremony for his mother?

2. What bill does President Johnson propose? He ends his speech with "we shall overcome" and becomes an ally of King's.

3. Robert Kennedy encourages James saying priests are needed in the streets. Who is already in the streets?

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

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

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