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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. Who is delighted to be a personal guest of Cardinal Spellman's and helps welcome the Pope?
(a) Brian Carroll.
(b) Joseph Carroll.
(c) James Carroll.
(d) Mary Carroll.

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

8. 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 prays.
(d) He convulses and silently sobs.

9. 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.

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

11. As what is the Catholic Student Center also known?
(a) The Center for the Lord.
(b) The Center for Peace.
(c) The Newman Center.
(d) The Carroll Center.

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

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

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

15. What does the General call Martin Luther King?
(a) A leader of the free.
(b) A great man.
(c) The most notorious liar in America.
(d) A religious role model.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what are students at this university notorious?

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

3. J. Edgar Hoover persecutes King, and who does he recruit in an unsuccessful attempt to stop King from meeting the Pope?

4. Senator Eugene McCarthy declares his candidacy for president on what platform?

5. When the General and Mary reunite with James at St. Paul's College and walk up Fourth Street, to where do they walk?

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