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

2. What does Carroll's DIA report show?
(a) The air campaign has already worked.
(b) The air campaign is not working.
(c) The air campaign is working.
(d) The air campaign might work.

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

4. J. Edgar Hoover persecutes King, and who does he recruit in an unsuccessful attempt to stop King from meeting the Pope?
(a) Father Carroll.
(b) Cardinal Spellman.
(c) Joseph Carroll.
(d) Father Kelly.

5. Who is the FBI resolved to bring down?
(a) Martin Luther King.
(b) Cardinal Spellman.
(c) The Pope.
(d) Joseph Carroll.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the General call Martin Luther King?

2. What is not James' belief but simply taken for granted as the way things are?

3. Who is excommunicated?

4. Who is delighted to be a personal guest of Cardinal Spellman's and helps welcome the Pope?

5. What does James intern as in Atlanta?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does James have a hard time promising to obey and respect Cardinal Cooke and his successors?

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What is James' opinion of segregation and white supremacy as a child?

7. Describe James' second revolution.

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

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

10. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

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