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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 2, True North.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Merton's father receive medical treatment for his cancer?
(a) At a hospital in Paris.
(b) At Durston Hospital in Scotland.
(c) At Middlesex Hospital in London.
(d) At home with a personal physician.

2. What political activities does Merton participate in at the university?
(a) Church-sponsored lectures.
(b) Writing for political publications.
(c) Student demonstrations and meetings.
(d) He is not involved with politics at the university.

3. Who is Father Edmund?
(a) A friend of Mark Van Doren.
(b) A friend of Merton's brother.
(c) A friend of Dan Walsh.
(d) A friend of Owen Merton.

4. What medical emergency does Merton experience while waiting to enter a monastery?
(a) He gets appendicitis and has surgery.
(b) He has serious stomach trouble and ulcers.
(c) He has an abcessed tooth extracted.
(d) He breaks his arm and must remain in a cast for months.

5. What sends Merton into a frustrating "holding pattern"?
(a) Being told to withdraw his application to the monastery and that he has no vocation to be a priest.
(b) Finding out that he was taken off the waiting list at St. Bonaventure.
(c) Being told that he must wait to find a teaching job until the next year.
(d) Discovering that his friends had sabotaged him in his desire to be a priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of Zion Church to Merton?

2. Where was Thomas Merton born?

3. What sin is Merton most concerned with when he begins to write poetry?

4. Where did Merton visit his father after the end of the school term at Oakham?

5. What, in Part 2, Chapter 2, causes Merton to feel enthusiastic?

(see the answer key)

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