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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. On what does James learn Catholic beliefs in scripture, events and characters are based?

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

3. How does James feel at his ordination?

4. Daniel Berrigan becomes a national hero. What is Spellman forced to do?

5. King is wiretapped, and what does his sexual behavior replace as an issue?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does James feel about his calling as both priest and poet?

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

4. How is the author resistant to authority?

5. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

6. How does the text show James is beginning to agree with his friends and associates who think he can follow Patrick's example of self-confidence and risk-taking by skating on his own thin ice?

7. 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?

8. What discussions are held at the Carroll dinner table?

9. Describe James' second revolution.

10. Who are the Paulist Fathers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

James sees his life following two possible tracks.

Part 1) What are the two tracks?

Part 2) Which track does he pick? Why does he pick it?

Part 3) How does this choice affect the rest of his life?

Essay Topic 2

Cardinal Cooke asks candidates to promise to obey and respect him and his successors as he enfolds their hands.

Part 1) Why does James have a hard time accepting this?

Part 2) How does this keep power out of the hands of individual priests?

Part 3) Imagine how you would feel in his position. How would you have handled this situation?

Essay Topic 3

The Paulist Fathers are a unique American order of priests.

Part 1) Who are the Paulist Fathers?

Part 2) How are they unique?

Part 3) Why are they charged with crimes against the church?

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