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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 read the Bible for the first time?

2. When the General and Mary reunite with James at St. Paul's College and walk up Fourth Street, to where do they walk?

3. What happens to James when he raises the Confederate flag to celebrate Robert E. Lee's birthday in the Washington Benedictine prep school?

4. Who is the host in place of Dick Cavett?

5. On whom does ritual require a newly-ordained priest to first perform his priestly blessing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What leads to General Carroll's feelings towards Martin Luther King, Jr.?

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

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

6. How is the author resistant to authority?

7. Describe James' second revolution.

8. Why can Michael not be buried by a Catholic priest?

9. How is Father Daniel Berrigan caught?

10. How does Martin Luther King, Jr. react when John F. Kennedy tells him Levison, King's adviser, is a one-time Communist Party official with ties to Moscow that risk civil-rights legislation in Congress?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the book James' opinion of the military, the government, and war change drastically.

Part 1) What does James think of these as a child? Why?

Part 2) How does his opinion change over time? Why?

Part 3) How do his actions match his change in opinion?

Essay Topic 3

James' and his father's differing opinions permanently affect their relationship.

Part 1) How is their relationship when James is young?

Part 2) What causes the rift in their relationship?

Part 3) Why are they unable to heal their relationship?

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