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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 reads an account of his father's conspiracy to destroy whom?
(a) The Democratic Party.
(b) The Catholic Church of America.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) The Pope.

2. The Pope's speech ends in French. What does it translate to in English?
(a) God bless the U.S.A.
(b) God is on our side.
(c) We must fight God's war.
(d) War no more.

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

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

5. Robert Kennedy encourages James saying priests are needed in the streets. Who is already in the streets?
(a) The ministers.
(b) The politicians.
(c) The people.
(d) The devil.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who arrests James for protesting Igloo White at Hansom Air Force Base?

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

5. How does the General refer to war protesters?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe James' second revolution.

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

4. Who are the Paulist Fathers?

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

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

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 is the author resistant to authority?

9. Why does the President begin to reject escalation of the war and refuse any use of nuclear weapons?

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

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