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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' appointment with Tate is interrupted by what personal tragedy the night before?
(a) One of Tate's newborn twins dies.
(b) James' father dies.
(c) The country has gone to war.
(d) His brother has been caught leaving the country and the draft.

2. Where is no one allowed to truly speak his mind?
(a) In the FBI.
(b) At the Carrolls'.
(c) In the government.
(d) In the Air Force.

3. What begins James' breakdown in shared understanding with his father?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The Paulist order.
(c) His leaving the priesthood.
(d) The Civil Rights movement.

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

5. What does Joe Carroll do as James blesses him and lays hands on his head?
(a) He prays.
(b) He sits silently.
(c) He is filled with the Holy Spirit.
(d) He convulses and silently sobs.

Short Answer Questions

1. James recalls when he and his fellow candidates lie prostrate on the cold stone floor of St. Paul the Apostle Church. What ceremony is this?

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

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

4. What does James return to Washington as a seminarian to study?

5. What does Cardinal Spellman do to Daniel Berrigan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the text show James is beginning to agree with his friends and associates who think he can follow Patrick's example of self-confidence and risk-taking by skating on his own thin ice?

6. Describe James' second revolution.

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

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

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