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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. Who is the host in place of Dick Cavett?

2. Why will a local Catholic priest not bury Tate's son, Michael?

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

4. Who is excommunicated?

5. Who becomes to James, for the first time, a man with whom he can identify?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

3. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

4. Describe James' second revolution.

5. Who are the Paulist Fathers?

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

7. How does Martin Luther King, Jr. react when John F. Kennedy tells him Levison, King's adviser, is a one-time Communist Party official with ties to Moscow that risk civil-rights legislation in Congress?

8. Why can Michael not be buried by a Catholic priest?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Part 1) What does James do in the Holy Land?

Part 2) Who does he meet? How does he help him in his decision-making?

Part 3) How does James resolve this struggle?

Essay Topic 3

James sees his life following two possible tracks.

Part 1) What are the two tracks?

Part 2) Which track does he pick? Why does he pick it?

Part 3) How does this choice affect the rest of his life?

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