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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Dan Berrigan's hiding place found?
(a) Through the Pope.
(b) Through the assistance of the Catholic church.
(c) Through James' confessions.
(d) Through the letters from his brother, Philip.

2. What is not James' belief but simply taken for granted as the way things are?
(a) The military.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Catholicism.

3. Whose point of view does James present on the Cavett Show?
(a) His own.
(b) His father's.
(c) Father Daniel Berrigan's.
(d) His students'.

4. What does Mary Carroll remind her son about Cardinal Spellman?
(a) He is looking for a golf caddy.
(b) He is a good friend.
(c) He is looking forward to ordaining James.
(d) He is not favored by the Pope.

5. What do James and fellow novices do on the edge of a lake?
(a) Fish.
(b) Bet when it will freeze over.
(c) Swim.
(d) Contemplate their choice to join the priesthood.

6. Why does James keep secret that he met and was kissed by Pope John XXIII?
(a) He feels guilty about advantages he receives.
(b) He does not think anyone would believe him.
(c) No one is allowed to know.
(d) He is shy.

7. What do President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara not know about Spellman?
(a) He helps instigate the war.
(b) He is not favored by the Pope.
(c) He will be ordaining James.
(d) He plays golf.

8. What does Carroll's DIA report show?
(a) The air campaign might work.
(b) The air campaign is not working.
(c) The air campaign has already worked.
(d) The air campaign is working.

9. What does Cardinal Spellman do to Daniel Berrigan?
(a) He brings him back from exile.
(b) He honors him with a fancy dinner.
(c) He finds him a parish in which to reside.
(d) He banishes Berrigan from New York.

10. James recalls when he and his fellow candidates lie prostrate on the cold stone floor of St. Paul the Apostle Church. What ceremony is this?
(a) The ordination ceremony.
(b) Reformation Sunday.
(c) The Holy Eucharist.
(d) The Passover ceremony.

11. On whom does ritual require a newly-ordained priest to first perform his priestly blessing?
(a) His siblings.
(b) On his parents.
(c) Other priests.
(d) Members of the congregation.

12. Why do countless Air Force chaplains attend in full dress?
(a) They have nothing else to do.
(b) They are friends with James.
(c) James is a general's son.
(d) James is in the Air Force.

13. When the General and Mary reunite with James at St. Paul's College and walk up Fourth Street, to where do they walk?
(a) The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
(b) The Catholic Archidiacese.
(c) The Lincoln Memorial.
(d) The Washington Monument.

14. Who becomes to James, for the first time, a man with whom he can identify?
(a) Jesus.
(b) The Pope.
(c) His father.
(d) John the Baptist.

15. How does James feel at his ordination?
(a) He is fearful.
(b) He feels betrayed.
(c) He is happy.
(d) He is unsure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What in Washington transforms James' resistance into a resolution because he is faithful to John XXIII and embodies his vision for the Church?

3. To what does the author flash back?

4. By the will of whom does Diem rule Vietnam?

5. King is wiretapped, and what does his sexual behavior replace as an issue?

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