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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the General refer to war protesters?
(a) As "kooks."
(b) As "hippies."
(c) As weirdos."
(d) As "crayzies."

2. What does Joe Carroll do as James blesses him and lays hands on his head?
(a) He sits silently.
(b) He convulses and silently sobs.
(c) He is filled with the Holy Spirit.
(d) He prays.

3. Despite years of religious training as an altar boy, catechism and religion classes, how is James regarding the Bible and theology?
(a) Misunderstood.
(b) Illiterate.
(c) Knowdedgeable.
(d) Confused.

4. Where is no one allowed to truly speak his mind?
(a) In the FBI.
(b) In the government.
(c) At the Carrolls'.
(d) In the Air Force.

5. What bill does President Johnson propose? He ends his speech with "we shall overcome" and becomes an ally of King's.
(a) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) Desegregation Bill.
(c) Voting Rights Bill.
(d) Equality for All Bill.

6. To what is the author resistant?
(a) His father.
(b) Authority.
(c) Christianity.
(d) The military.

7. Who is excommunicated?
(a) Some traditional Paulists.
(b) Some modernist Paulists.
(c) Some traditional Benedictines.
(d) Some modernists Bendictines.

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

9. James' appointment with Tate is interrupted by what personal tragedy the night before?
(a) One of Tate's newborn twins dies.
(b) The country has gone to war.
(c) James' father dies.
(d) His brother has been caught leaving the country and the draft.

10. Senator Eugene McCarthy declares his candidacy for president on what platform?
(a) An anti-war platform.
(b) A war platform.
(c) A green platform.
(d) A segregationist platform.

11. What does James recollect about slaves?
(a) The south's economic growth is due to them.
(b) They are mistreated.
(c) They are part of a slave-owner's family.
(d) They always seemed happy.

12. Why does Robert Kennedy send federal marshals instead of FBI agents to protect James Meredith at Ole Miss?
(a) He does not trust the FBI.
(b) The FBI is not very thorough.
(c) He fears the FBI.
(d) James Meredith is a federal marshal.

13. The Pope's speech ends in French. What does it translate to in English?
(a) God bless the U.S.A.
(b) God is on our side.
(c) We must fight God's war.
(d) War no more.

14. Why does James organize a citizens' tribunal to indict J. Edgar Hoover?
(a) For FBI abuses.
(b) For his segregationist views.
(c) For his assination attempt of the President.
(d) For betraying his father.

15. James is a boy in southern Alexandria and raised in what traditions?
(a) Confederate.
(b) American.
(c) Virginian.
(d) Military.

Short Answer Questions

1. On whom does ritual require a newly-ordained priest to first perform his priestly blessing?

2. 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?

3. James reads an account of his father's conspiracy to destroy whom?

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

5. Whose point of view does James present on the Cavett Show?

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