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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 General Carroll ask of Father James?

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

3. How does James feel among the working-class Irish novices?

4. Where is no one allowed to truly speak his mind?

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

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. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

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. How does James feel about his calling as both priest and poet?

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

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

8. Who are the Paulist Fathers?

9. Describe James' second revolution.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The B-52 Bomber is an important symbol in this book.

Part 1) What is a B-52 Bomber? What is its purpose?

Part 2) How is the B-52 Bomber significant in this book?

Part 3) How does the B-52 Bomber symbolize James' opinion of war and the military?

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

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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