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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite years of religious training as an altar boy, catechism and religion classes, how is James regarding the Bible and theology?

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

3. For what is Selma, Alabama, in 1965, notorious?

4. As what is the Catholic Student Center also known?

5. Nixon is in office and plans to do what with the Vietnam War?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

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

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

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

6. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

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

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. What discussions are held at the Carroll dinner table?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A local Catholic priest will not bury Tate's son, Michael.

Part 1) Why will he not bury the child?

Part 2) How does this follow the Catholic church, as described in this book?

Part 3) Do you feel the priest made a good decision? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The Paulist Fathers are a unique American order of priests.

Part 1) Who are the Paulist Fathers?

Part 2) How are they unique?

Part 3) Why are they charged with crimes against the church?

Essay Topic 3

James goes through three revolutions of change.

Part 1) What are the three revolutions?

Part 2) Give examples from the text that show these revolutions.

Part 3) How do these revolutions influence him later in life?

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