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

2. To what does the author flash back?

3. Nixon is in office and plans to do what with the Vietnam War?

4. To what is the author resistant?

5. For what are students at this university notorious?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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. What is the General's opinion of 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. What does the FBI do to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

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

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

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 is General Carroll successful in his government position?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Walter Cronkite declares the war will end in stalemate.

Part 1) What does the President learn from this message?

Part 2) What does the President do because of this message?

Part 3) What does this show about the power of the civilian population?

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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