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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. Who does His Holiness address for its twentieth-year celebration?
(a) The Paulist Fathers.
(b) The Catholic Church of America.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) The United Nations.

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

3. Senator Eugene McCarthy declares his candidacy for president on what platform?
(a) A green platform.
(b) An anti-war platform.
(c) A segregationist platform.
(d) A war platform.

4. What does James intern as in Atlanta?
(a) A pastoral counselor.
(b) An Air Force cadet.
(c) A therapist.
(d) A lay assistant.

5. What does James' mother refuse to recognize about the war?
(a) That it may embarrass James.
(b) That is is ending.
(c) The war is unjust.
(d) That her husband is against the war.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what is the author resistant?

3. Who is excommunicated?

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

5. To what is the conflict between James and his father limited?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

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

6. How is the author resistant to authority?

7. 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?

8. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

9. 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?

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

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