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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 is the conflict between James and his father limited?
(a) The priesthood.
(b) The Air Force.
(c) The Civil Rights movement.
(d) The Vietnam War.

2. Of what does James believe Joe Carroll embodies the motto?
(a) His Air Force career, Integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do.
(b) The Church, The Lord is my light.
(c) His FBI career, fidelity, bravery and integrity.
(d) The priesthood, Heroes of Sacrifice.

3. Who is the host in place of Dick Cavett?
(a) Johnny Carson.
(b) David Letterman.
(c) Jack Klugman.
(d) Jack Black.

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

5. For what is Selma, Alabama, in 1965, notorious?
(a) Producing politicians.
(b) A demonstration King leads for black voting rights.
(c) Hangings.
(d) Crime.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do James and fellow novices do on the edge of a lake?

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

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

4. Tom Dooley writes a book inferring what about Vietnam?

5. God, government, and what else keep James in conflict?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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