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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is Dan Berrigan's hiding place found?
(a) Through James' confessions.
(b) Through the letters from his brother, Philip.
(c) Through the assistance of the Catholic church.
(d) Through the Pope.

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

4. 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) We must fight God's war.
(d) God is on our side.

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

6. What does Cardinal Spellman do to Daniel Berrigan?
(a) He finds him a parish in which to reside.
(b) He brings him back from exile.
(c) He banishes Berrigan from New York.
(d) He honors him with a fancy dinner.

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

8. For what are students at this university notorious?
(a) Being violent.
(b) Being insubordinate.
(c) Being pro-war.
(d) Being anti-war.

9. Whose point of view does James present on the Cavett Show?
(a) His students'.
(b) His own.
(c) His father's.
(d) Father Daniel Berrigan's.

10. James' appointment with Tate is interrupted by what personal tragedy the night before?
(a) One of Tate's newborn twins dies.
(b) The country has gone to war.
(c) James' father dies.
(d) His brother has been caught leaving the country and the draft.

11. What happens to James when he raises the Confederate flag to celebrate Robert E. Lee's birthday in the Washington Benedictine prep school?
(a) He is expelled.
(b) He is lightly reprimanded.
(c) He is awarded.
(d) He is exalted.

12. What changes James' life and leads to a weekly review of two poems?
(a) A visit by Allen Tate to the college.
(b) A summer writing workshop taught by Allen Tate.
(c) Patrick Hughes' friendship.
(d) A literature course in school.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Robert Kennedy send federal marshals instead of FBI agents to protect James Meredith at Ole Miss?

2. These priests focus on a defensive Catholic Church and a hostile American culture.

3. Why will a local Catholic priest not bury Tate's son, Michael?

4. What does Carroll's DIA report show?

5. James is ordained in 1969, and assigned to the campus ministry at what university?

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