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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On what does James learn Catholic beliefs in scripture, events and characters are based?
(a) Myth and fiction, not divine intervention.
(b) Divine intervention, not myth and fiction.
(c) The ocult.
(d) The Holy Trinity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Who is the FBI resolved to bring down?
(a) The Pope.
(b) Joseph Carroll.
(c) Martin Luther King.
(d) Cardinal Spellman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cardinal Spellman do to Daniel Berrigan?

2. What does General Carroll ask of Father James?

3. Who reminds James of Air Force chaplains?

4. What changes James' life and leads to a weekly review of two poems?

5. What is not James' belief but simply taken for granted as the way things are?

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