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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. Whose point of view does James present on the Cavett Show?
(a) His students'.
(b) Father Daniel Berrigan's.
(c) His father's.
(d) His own.

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

3. What does General Carroll ask of Father James?
(a) To support his beliefs.
(b) To offer the benediction at a dinner to honor Hoover.
(c) To change his views on the war.
(d) To leave the priesthood.

4. Daniel Berrigan becomes a national hero. What is Spellman forced to do?
(a) Retrieve Berrigan from exile.
(b) Find a parish for him.
(c) Honor him with a parade.
(d) Banish Berrigan from New York.

5. Why does James keep secret that he met and was kissed by Pope John XXIII?
(a) No one is allowed to know.
(b) He is shy.
(c) He feels guilty about advantages he receives.
(d) He does not think anyone would believe him.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. These priests focus on a defensive Catholic Church and a hostile American culture.

4. Why do countless Air Force chaplains attend in full dress?

5. On whom does ritual require a newly-ordained priest to first perform his priestly blessing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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

6. Describe James' second revolution.

7. 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?

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

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

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

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