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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Father James spend the summer on retreat in the Holy Land?
(a) To take a long-needed vacation.
(b) To reconsider his vocation.
(c) For a religion conference.
(d) To meet with religious leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to James when he raises the Confederate flag to celebrate Robert E. Lee's birthday in the Washington Benedictine prep school?

2. What does Joseph ask of his son at Christmas dinner, 1965?

3. What does Mary Carroll remind her son about Cardinal Spellman?

4. The Pope's speech ends in French. What does it translate to in English?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Boston University a good fit for Father Carroll?

2. What is the General's opinion of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

3. Why does James feel out of place among the working-class Irish novices?

4. His Holiness addresses the United Nations for its twentieth-year celebration.

5. General Carroll is chairman of a Washington dinner to honor Hoover. He asks Father James to offer the benediction. How does Father James react?

6. Why can Michael not be buried by a Catholic priest?

7. How does Martin Luther King, Jr. react when John F. Kennedy tells him Levison, King's adviser, is a one-time Communist Party official with ties to Moscow that risk civil-rights legislation in Congress?

8. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

9. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

10. General Carroll's DIA offers up analysis that the bombing is having no effect on Hanoi's ability to wage war. How do the Joint Chiefs respond?

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