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

2. What is this ceremony for his mother?
(a) A tradition in her family.
(b) Her first.
(c) A fearful one.
(d) A dream come true.

3. 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) The Holy Eucharist.
(c) Reformation Sunday.
(d) The Passover ceremony.

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

5. James sees King once in person, and what is his opinion of King?
(a) He can not be trusted.
(b) His father is right in believing King is void of all morals.
(c) King is the only public figure to which he is personally devoted.
(d) He is a liar and a coward.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. James is ordained in 1969, and assigned to the campus ministry at what university?

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

4. To what is the author resistant?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the tone difference between Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover?

2. His Holiness addresses the United Nations for its twentieth-year celebration.

3. Describe James' second revolution.

4. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

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

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

7. How is the author resistant to authority?

8. How is James' friendship with Patrick Hughes significant?

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

10. Father James continues to have struggles with his vocation and decides to spend the summer on retreat in the Holy Land to reconsider his vocation. How does this trip help him make a decision about being a priest?

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