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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Cardinal Spellman meet in 1950?
(a) Secretary of Defense McNamara.
(b) The Pope.
(c) President Johnson.
(d) Ngo Dinh Diem.

2. These priests focus on a defensive Catholic Church and a hostile American culture.
(a) Paulist Fathers.
(b) Benedictine Fathers.
(c) Markist Fathers.
(d) Franciscan Fathers.

3. Nixon is in office and plans to do what with the Vietnam War?
(a) End it.
(b) Ask other countries for assistance.
(c) Slowly remove soldiers from Vietnam.
(d) Escalate it.

4. Why will a local Catholic priest not bury Tate's son, Michael?
(a) Tate is not a Catholic.
(b) Michael is not actually Tate's son.
(c) The Protestants are fighting to bury him.
(d) Tate is a divorced Catholic.

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

6. Why does Father James spend the summer on retreat in the Holy Land?
(a) To meet with religious leaders.
(b) To reconsider his vocation.
(c) To take a long-needed vacation.
(d) For a religion conference.

7. Who reminds James of Air Force chaplains?
(a) The Rector at the college.
(b) His father.
(c) The young Father Kelly and his open-hearted camaraderie.
(d) The Paulist Fathers.

8. Who becomes famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) James Carroll.
(c) Daniel Ellsberg.
(d) Cardinal Spellman.

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

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

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

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

13. When Kennedy is assassinated, what does Johnson take over?
(a) The administration and the war.
(b) The presidency.
(c) The war.
(d) The Democratic Party.

14. As what is the Catholic Student Center also known?
(a) The Carroll Center.
(b) The Newman Center.
(c) The Center for the Lord.
(d) The Center for Peace.

15. For what is Selma, Alabama, in 1965, notorious?
(a) Producing politicians.
(b) A demonstration King leads for black voting rights.
(c) Crime.
(d) Hangings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does James read the Bible for the first time?

3. What does General Carroll ask of Father James?

4. How does James feel at his ordination?

5. What does James do a week before entering the novitiate?

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