An American Requiem Test | Final Test - Easy

James P. Carroll
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

An American Requiem Test | Final Test - Easy

James P. Carroll
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Joseph ask of his son at Christmas dinner, 1965?
(a) To support his views.
(b) He asks his son to say grace for the first time.
(c) To leave the priesthood.
(d) To be the priest at his younger brother's wedding.

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

6. Nixon is in office and plans to do what with the Vietnam War?
(a) End it.
(b) Escalate it.
(c) Ask other countries for assistance.
(d) Slowly remove soldiers from Vietnam.

7. The Pope's speech ends in French. What does it translate to in English?
(a) God bless the U.S.A.
(b) God is on our side.
(c) We must fight God's war.
(d) War no more.

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

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

10. What does James intern as in Atlanta?
(a) An Air Force cadet.
(b) A therapist.
(c) A pastoral counselor.
(d) A lay assistant.

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

12. Why does Robert Kennedy send federal marshals instead of FBI agents to protect James Meredith at Ole Miss?
(a) James Meredith is a federal marshal.
(b) He fears the FBI.
(c) He does not trust the FBI.
(d) The FBI is not very thorough.

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

14. Who does Cardinal Spellman meet in 1950?
(a) Ngo Dinh Diem.
(b) Secretary of Defense McNamara.
(c) President Johnson.
(d) The Pope.

15. 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 give the sermon.
(b) To bless the congregation.
(c) To marry.
(d) Sacramental power to turn bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cardinal Spellman do to Daniel Berrigan?

2. How does James feel at his ordination?

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

4. What begins James' breakdown in shared understanding with his father?

5. To what is the author resistant?

(see the answer keys)

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