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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what is the author resistant?
(a) Authority.
(b) Christianity.
(c) His father.
(d) The military.

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

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

5. 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 Passover ceremony.
(b) The ordination ceremony.
(c) The Holy Eucharist.
(d) Reformation Sunday.

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

7. How does James thank "Mr. Johnson" for ending the war?
(a) In person.
(b) During a meal at the White House.
(c) On the telephone.
(d) He writes a personal letter.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is not James' belief but simply taken for granted as the way things are?
(a) The military.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Slavery.

14. How does James read the Bible for the first time?
(a) Using the Hebrew Bible.
(b) As a living thing.
(c) Very slowly.
(d) Starting with the New Testament.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do countless Air Force chaplains attend in full dress?

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

3. What does James do a week before entering the novitiate?

4. Who is the host in place of Dick Cavett?

5. By the will of whom does Diem rule Vietnam?

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