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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what are students at this university notorious?
(a) Being insubordinate.
(b) Being anti-war.
(c) Being pro-war.
(d) Being violent.

2. What does the General call Martin Luther King?
(a) A leader of the free.
(b) A great man.
(c) The most notorious liar in America.
(d) A religious role model.

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

4. J. Edgar Hoover persecutes King, and who does he recruit in an unsuccessful attempt to stop King from meeting the Pope?
(a) Father Kelly.
(b) Father Carroll.
(c) Cardinal Spellman.
(d) Joseph Carroll.

5. What does James' mother refuse to recognize about the war?
(a) That is is ending.
(b) That it may embarrass James.
(c) The war is unjust.
(d) That her husband is against the war.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. God, government, and what else keep James in conflict?

4. Senator Eugene McCarthy declares his candidacy for president on what platform?

5. What does Joseph ask of his son at Christmas dinner, 1965?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the author resistant to authority?

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

3. Describe James' second revolution.

4. What does the FBI do to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. How is Boston University a good fit for Father Carroll?

10. General Carroll is chairman of a Washington dinner to honor Hoover. He asks Father James to offer the benediction. How does Father James react?

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