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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. What does Mary Carroll remind her son about Cardinal Spellman?
(a) He is looking for a golf caddy.
(b) He is not favored by the Pope.
(c) He is looking forward to ordaining James.
(d) He is a good friend.

2. 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) Father Kelly.
(c) Cardinal Spellman.
(d) Joseph Carroll.

3. King is wiretapped, and what does his sexual behavior replace as an issue?
(a) Communist infiltration.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) Marxist thugs.
(d) The Republican Party.

4. Why do countless Air Force chaplains attend in full dress?
(a) They have nothing else to do.
(b) James is a general's son.
(c) James is in the Air Force.
(d) They are friends with James.

5. On whom does ritual require a newly-ordained priest to first perform his priestly blessing?
(a) His siblings.
(b) Other priests.
(c) Members of the congregation.
(d) On his parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Dan Berrigan's hiding place found?

2. On what does James learn Catholic beliefs in scripture, events and characters are based?

3. What convinces James to be Patrick Hughes' friend?

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

5. By the will of whom does Diem rule Vietnam?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

4. Why is General Carroll successful in his government position?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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