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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. What does Mlle Louise tell the priest about Mlle Chantal?

2. Which child seems to hold some promise out of all the students?

3. What is the content of a letter received by the young priest?

4. Who is Louis Duprety?

5. What does the young priest teach the children of the parish?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Cure de Torcy's perspective on how Jesus views monks and priests?

2. What information does Mlle Louise share with the priest and how does he feel about knowing it?

3. How has the young priest come to think about his parish so far?

4. How does the theme of pride emerge and how does the young priest perceive it?

5. What advice does the young priest receive from M. le Comte from the Chateau?

6. Who is the Curé de Torcy and how does he advise the young priest?

7. What role does his diary fill in the life of the young priest?

8. Describe the scenario when Mlle Chantal approaches the priest after mass one morning.

9. Explain the circumstances of the suspicion encircling the boy, Sulpice Mitonnet.

10. In addition to his illness, what indignity must the young priest now manage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Another important theme in the book is injustice. Who are the characters who are most affected by injustice in life? How do these characters manage their lives? Do any of the characters rise above their situations or do they stay mired in the inequities of life?

Essay Topic 2

Of all the people who have attempted to damage the young priest's reputation, Seraphita is the only one who actually makes amends. Why is this young girl the only person who has a conscious regarding the right and wrong of what she has done? Is it because the priest had acknowledged her potential and she is finally living up to it? Or has she received some intervention of grace?

Essay Topic 3

The scene where the young priest faints twice and vomits blood can be interpreted to be a metaphor for the suffering of Christ prior to his crucifixion. Explain how the priest's suffering mirrors that of Christ's. What other parallels can be drawn between the two?

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