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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 politicians.
(d) The people.

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. What does James recollect about slaves?
(a) They always seemed happy.
(b) The south's economic growth is due to them.
(c) They are part of a slave-owner's family.
(d) They are mistreated.

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

9. For what is Selma, Alabama, in 1965, notorious?
(a) A demonstration King leads for black voting rights.
(b) Crime.
(c) Hangings.
(d) Producing politicians.

10. What is this ceremony for his mother?
(a) A dream come true.
(b) A tradition in her family.
(c) A fearful one.
(d) Her first.

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 honors him with a fancy dinner.
(d) He brings him back from exile.

12. As what is the Catholic Student Center also known?
(a) The Newman Center.
(b) The Center for Peace.
(c) The Center for the Lord.
(d) The Carroll Center.

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

14. Who becomes to James, for the first time, a man with whom he can identify?
(a) His father.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Jesus.
(d) John the Baptist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. James sees King once in person, and what is his opinion of King?

2. James recalls when he and his fellow candidates lie prostrate on the cold stone floor of St. Paul the Apostle Church. What ceremony is this?

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

4. What does James return to Washington as a seminarian to study?

5. When the General and Mary reunite with James at St. Paul's College and walk up Fourth Street, to where do they walk?

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