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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. These priests focus on a defensive Catholic Church and a hostile American culture.

2. What does the General call Martin Luther King?

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

4. What does Joe Carroll do as James blesses him and lays hands on his head?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

3. His Holiness addresses the United Nations for its twentieth-year celebration.

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

9. 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?

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

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

Joseph believes the "spoiled priest" curse is passed from him to his son.

Part 1) How does Joseph act that supports this statement?

Part 2) Why has Joseph not been able to escape this curse?

Part 3) How does his belief in this curse further push his son, James, away from him?

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