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

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

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

4. James recalls when he and his fellow candidates lie prostrate on the cold stone floor of St. Paul the Apostle Church. What ceremony is this?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe James' second revolution.

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

3. 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?

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

5. How is the author resistant to authority?

6. What discussions are held at the Carroll dinner table?

7. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

When James is growing up, the Catholic Church is still hiding its accounts of sexual immorality.

Part 1) How does James deal with his struggle with his sexuality?

Part 2) How does he view the religious men around him? How they aid him in his choices?

Part 3) Predict James' reaction to the priests he knows, if he had learned about their breaking of the vow of celibacy. How might this knowledge have affected his decisions?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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