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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. Robert Kennedy encourages James saying priests are needed in the streets. Who is already in the streets?

2. How does James feel among the working-class Irish novices?

3. What does the General call Martin Luther King?

4. How does James read the Bible for the first time?

5. Who arrests James for protesting Igloo White at Hansom Air Force Base?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

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

3. 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?

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. 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?

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

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

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

9. General Carroll is chairman of a Washington dinner to honor Hoover. He asks Father James to offer the benediction. How does Father James react?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

James' and his father's differing opinions permanently affect their relationship.

Part 1) How is their relationship when James is young?

Part 2) What causes the rift in their relationship?

Part 3) Why are they unable to heal their relationship?

Essay Topic 2

James is both priest and poet.

Part 1) How does he come to be both?

Part 2) How does he struggle with these two callings?

Part 3) At the end of the book, is he a priest, poet, or both? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Joe feels like a disgrace for leaving the seminary.

Part 1) Why does he leave the seminary?

Part 2) Why does he feel guilty for leaving? What curse manifests from his leaving the seminary?

Part 3) How does his disgrace linger for the rest of the life?

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