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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. To what does the author flash back?
(a) His childhood riding in an automobile with his father.
(b) His years in Germany.
(c) His high school girlfriend.
(d) His recent experience with Allen Tate in Tennessee.

2. What in Washington transforms James' resistance into a resolution because he is faithful to John XXIII and embodies his vision for the Church?
(a) Joseph Carroll's position.
(b) Father Kelly's book.
(c) Hans Kung's lecture.
(d) Robert F. Kennedy's speech.

3. These priests focus on a defensive Catholic Church and a hostile American culture.
(a) Benedictine Fathers.
(b) Paulist Fathers.
(c) Markist Fathers.
(d) Franciscan Fathers.

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

5. What convinces James to be Patrick Hughes' friend?
(a) He has no other friends.
(b) Patrick's belief in himself.
(c) Patrick does not give James the option to say no.
(d) Patrick is kind and loving.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the host in place of Dick Cavett?

2. Who is the FBI resolved to bring down?

3. When Kennedy is assassinated, what does Johnson take over?

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

5. How does the General refer to war protesters?

Short Essay Questions

1. General Carroll's DIA offers up analysis that the bombing is having no effect on Hanoi's ability to wage war. How do the Joint Chiefs respond?

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

3. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

4. How is the author resistant to authority?

5. Describe James' second revolution.

6. 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?

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

8. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

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

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

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