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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 sits silently.
(c) He convulses and silently sobs.
(d) He prays.

4. What does James do a week before entering the novitiate?
(a) He meets with Allen Tate to show him several of his poems.
(b) He begins to write a religious-based novel.
(c) He prays about what his calling truly is.
(d) He dates the Vice-President's daughter and tries unsuccessfully to have sex.

5. Who is excommunicated?
(a) Some traditional Benedictines.
(b) Some traditional Paulists.
(c) Some modernists Bendictines.
(d) Some modernist Paulists.

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

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

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

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

10. When Kennedy is assassinated, what does Johnson take over?
(a) The administration and the war.
(b) The Democratic Party.
(c) The war.
(d) The presidency.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the author flash back?

2. To what is the conflict between James and his father limited?

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

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

5. What in Washington transforms James' resistance into a resolution because he is faithful to John XXIII and embodies his vision for the Church?

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