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

2. Where does James begin seminary training in 1963?
(a) St. Mark's College.
(b) St. Paul's College.
(c) College of the Benedictine.
(d) St. Francis College.

3. What in Washington transforms James' resistance into a resolution because he is faithful to John XXIII and embodies his vision for the Church?
(a) Joseph Carroll's position.
(b) Hans Kung's lecture.
(c) Father Kelly's book.
(d) Robert F. Kennedy's speech.

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

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

6. What do President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara not know about Spellman?
(a) He plays golf.
(b) He is not favored by the Pope.
(c) He will be ordaining James.
(d) He helps instigate the war.

7. What do James and fellow novices do on the edge of a lake?
(a) Swim.
(b) Bet when it will freeze over.
(c) Fish.
(d) Contemplate their choice to join the priesthood.

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

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

10. What does James' mother refuse to recognize about the war?
(a) That her husband is against the war.
(b) That is is ending.
(c) That it may embarrass James.
(d) The war is unjust.

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

12. Why do countless Air Force chaplains attend in full dress?
(a) They have nothing else to do.
(b) They are friends with James.
(c) James is a general's son.
(d) James is in the Air Force.

13. James feels his life ends when he enters seminary and that as a child he first hears the word as what?
(a) Cinnamon.
(b) Crematory.
(c) Cemetery.
(d) Sedimentary.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what does James learn Catholic beliefs in scripture, events and characters are based?

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

3. Who reminds James of Air Force chaplains?

4. James' appointment with Tate is interrupted by what personal tragedy the night before?

5. James reads an account of his father's conspiracy to destroy whom?

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