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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 FBI resolved to bring down?

2. What does James do a week before entering the novitiate?

3. To what does the author flash back?

4. What does the General call Martin Luther King?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

4. How is Boston University a good fit for Father Carroll?

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

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

7. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

8. How is the author resistant to authority?

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

10. What is James' opinion of segregation and white supremacy as a child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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