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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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?
(a) The ordination ceremony.
(b) The Passover ceremony.
(c) Reformation Sunday.
(d) The Holy Eucharist.

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

5. James sees King once in person, and what is his opinion of King?
(a) King is the only public figure to which he is personally devoted.
(b) He can not be trusted.
(c) He is a liar and a coward.
(d) His father is right in believing King is void of all morals.

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

7. How does James feel at his ordination?
(a) He is happy.
(b) He feels betrayed.
(c) He is fearful.
(d) He is unsure.

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

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

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

11. On whom does ritual require a newly-ordained priest to first perform his priestly blessing?
(a) His siblings.
(b) Other priests.
(c) Members of the congregation.
(d) On his parents.

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

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

14. When the General and Mary reunite with James at St. Paul's College and walk up Fourth Street, to where do they walk?
(a) The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
(b) The Lincoln Memorial.
(c) The Washington Monument.
(d) The Catholic Archidiacese.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite years of religious training as an altar boy, catechism and religion classes, how is James regarding the Bible and theology?

2. Who arrests James for protesting Igloo White at Hansom Air Force Base?

3. What does Carroll's DIA report show?

4. Where is no one allowed to truly speak his mind?

5. God, government, and what else keep James in conflict?

(see the answer keys)

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