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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does James get to know Monsignor Chess?

2. What Chicago bank robber, kidnapper and killer has a significant impact on James' father's career?

3. What does he instruct James to do?

4. Where does James attend school?

5. In November 1965, who sets himself on fire at the Pentagon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does General Carroll share with his son regarding war?

2. How does Joe become a part of Kelly's political hypocrisy?

3. Why is FDR an admired president?

4. How does the celebration begin?

5. How does James change from his pro-war attitude?

6. What are Joseph's and Mary's roles in their family?

7. What is Joe's attitude about human nature?

8. What are the two tracks James sees in his life in Wiesbaden?

9. What are some of the discussions about use of nuclear weapons in preemptive strikes on China and the Soviet Union that James remembers?

10. Upon what does James reflect at the end of the chapter, regarding B-52s and nuclear war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Part 1) What does James do in the Holy Land?

Part 2) Who does he meet? How does he help him in his decision-making?

Part 3) How does James resolve this struggle?

Essay Topic 2

A local Catholic priest will not bury Tate's son, Michael.

Part 1) Why will he not bury the child?

Part 2) How does this follow the Catholic church, as described in this book?

Part 3) Do you feel the priest made a good decision? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

James is both priest and poet.

Part 1) How does he come to be both?

Part 2) How does he struggle with these two callings?

Part 3) At the end of the book, is he a priest, poet, or both? Explain.

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