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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. James reads an account of his father's conspiracy to destroy whom?

2. Of what does James believe Joe Carroll embodies the motto?

3. King is wiretapped, and what does his sexual behavior replace as an issue?

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

5. Why does James organize a citizens' tribunal to indict J. Edgar Hoover?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads to General Carroll's feelings towards Martin Luther King, Jr.?

2. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

3. What is the tone difference between Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover?

4. How does James feel about his calling as both priest and poet?

5. How is the author resistant to authority?

6. What discussions are held at the Carroll dinner table?

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

8. Who are the Paulist Fathers?

9. How is James' friendship with Patrick Hughes significant?

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

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