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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James is ordained in 1969, and assigned to the campus ministry at what university?
(a) Northwestern University.
(b) New York University.
(c) Boston University.
(d) The University of Virginia.

2. King is wiretapped, and what does his sexual behavior replace as an issue?
(a) Communist infiltration.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) Marxist thugs.
(d) The Republican Party.

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

4. 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 exalted.
(c) He is lightly reprimanded.
(d) He is awarded.

5. 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 take a long-needed vacation.
(d) To meet with religious leaders.

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

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

8. 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 Catholic Archidiacese.
(b) The Washington Monument.
(c) The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
(d) The Lincoln Memorial.

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

10. J. Edgar Hoover persecutes King, and who does he recruit in an unsuccessful attempt to stop King from meeting the Pope?
(a) Father Kelly.
(b) Joseph Carroll.
(c) Father Carroll.
(d) Cardinal Spellman.

11. These priests focus on a defensive Catholic Church and a hostile American culture.
(a) Markist Fathers.
(b) Paulist Fathers.
(c) Benedictine Fathers.
(d) Franciscan Fathers.

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

13. When Kennedy is assassinated, what does Johnson take over?
(a) The presidency.
(b) The war.
(c) The administration and the war.
(d) The Democratic Party.

14. 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) He fears the FBI.
(c) James Meredith is a federal marshal.
(d) The FBI is not very thorough.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does James feel at his ordination?

2. On whom does ritual require a newly-ordained priest to first perform his priestly blessing?

3. Whose point of view does James present on the Cavett Show?

4. Who becomes to James, for the first time, a man with whom he can identify?

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

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