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

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

3. What do James and fellow novices do on the edge of a lake?
(a) Fish.
(b) Contemplate their choice to join the priesthood.
(c) Swim.
(d) Bet when it will freeze over.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does James keep secret that he met and was kissed by Pope John XXIII?

3. What bill does President Johnson propose? He ends his speech with "we shall overcome" and becomes an ally of King's.

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

5. Daniel Berrigan becomes a national hero. What is Spellman forced to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the FBI do to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

3. How is the author resistant to authority?

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

5. Ritual requires a newly-ordained priest perform his first priestly blessing on his parents. How do his parents react?

6. Describe James' second revolution.

7. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

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

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

10. Father James continues to have struggles with his vocation and decides to spend the summer on retreat in the Holy Land to reconsider his vocation. How does this trip help him make a decision about being a priest?

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