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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. Where does James begin seminary training in 1963?

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

3. Who does His Holiness address for its twentieth-year celebration?

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

5. Why does Father James spend the summer on retreat in the Holy Land?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. What is the tone difference between Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover?

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

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

7. How is the author resistant to authority?

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

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

10. How does the text show James is beginning to agree with his friends and associates who think he can follow Patrick's example of self-confidence and risk-taking by skating on his own thin ice?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Joe feels like a disgrace for leaving the seminary.

Part 1) Why does he leave the seminary?

Part 2) Why does he feel guilty for leaving? What curse manifests from his leaving the seminary?

Part 3) How does his disgrace linger for the rest of the life?

Essay Topic 2

The government attempts to destroy Martin Luther King, Jr.

Part 1) Why?

Part 2) How?

Part 3) Are they successful? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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