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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. Nixon is in office and plans to do what with the Vietnam War?
(a) Ask other countries for assistance.
(b) Escalate it.
(c) End it.
(d) Slowly remove soldiers from Vietnam.

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

3. When Kennedy is assassinated, what does Johnson take over?
(a) The war.
(b) The administration and the war.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The presidency.

4. By the will of whom does Diem rule Vietnam?
(a) Buddha.
(b) God.
(c) Shiva.
(d) Allah.

5. Who is excommunicated?
(a) Some traditional Benedictines.
(b) Some modernist Paulists.
(c) Some modernists Bendictines.
(d) Some traditional Paulists.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does James begin seminary training in 1963?

4. What does the General call Martin Luther King?

5. Who reminds James of Air Force chaplains?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe James' second revolution.

3. How is the author resistant to authority?

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

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

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

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

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. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

10. Who are the Paulist Fathers?

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