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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 James recollect about slaves?

2. Why does Robert Kennedy send federal marshals instead of FBI agents to protect James Meredith at Ole Miss?

3. What does Carroll's DIA report show?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the Paulist Fathers?

2. Describe James' second revolution.

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

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

5. How does Father Daniel Berrigan protest the war?

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

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

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

9. What is the General's opinion of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Pope Paul VI shocks many in government positions and is one of many who protest the Vietnam War.

Part 1) How does Pope Paul VI shock those in government?

Part 2) How do others react to what the Pope preaches?

Part 3) What other people promote peace?

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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