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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. For what are students at this university notorious?

2. Tom Dooley writes a book inferring what about Vietnam?

3. Who is delighted to be a personal guest of Cardinal Spellman's and helps welcome the Pope?

4. On whom does ritual require a newly-ordained priest to first perform his priestly blessing?

5. How does James feel at his ordination?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Throughout the book James' opinion of the military, the government, and war change drastically.

Part 1) What does James think of these as a child? Why?

Part 2) How does his opinion change over time? Why?

Part 3) How do his actions match his change in opinion?

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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