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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Father Schwartz ask Rudolph if he has done when he first visits?
(a) He asks if he has killed someone.
(b) He asks if he has used the Lord's name in vain.
(c) He asks if he has committed theft.
(d) He asks if he has lied.

2. How old is Rudolph Miller?
(a) 8.
(b) 11.
(c) 17.
(d) 22.

3. How does Rudolph describe to Father Schwartz the "phrases" he had used during his confession in Chapter 2?
(a) Obscene.
(b) Inappropriate.
(c) Filthy.
(d) Grimy.

4. Who can Father Schwartz hear pass by his window at 4 p.m.?
(a) Ambulances.
(b) Schoolchildren.
(c) Nobody, the streets are eerily quiet.
(d) A group of women.

5. Who is the author of "Absolution"?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) Franz Kafka.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Father Schwartz know Rudolph's father?

2. What does Rudolph think will happen if he takes communion the day after he confesses to Father Schwartz in Chapter 2?

3. How did Rudolph feel when his father told him to go to confession three days earlier?

4. What does Rudolph do while waiting to see the priest at the start of Chapter 2?

5. Who is waiting to see Father Schwartz at the start of Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What questions does Father Schwartz ask Rudolph when he says he has committed a terrible sin?

2. What words does Father Schwartz use when addressing Rudolph in the confessional in Chapter 2?

3. What does Father Schwartz tell Rudolph he should have done when he was in the barn with the boy and the girl?

4. Why did Rudolph's father tell him he had to go to confession three days before Rudolph came to see Father Schwartz in his home? Did Rudolph obey his father?

5. Who is Rudolph Miller? How does Father Schwartz behave when he first comes to his house in Chapter 1?

6. What "easy sins" did Rudolph confess to Father Schwartz in Chapter 2?

7. Who is Blatchford Sarnmenington? What happens when Rudolph thinks of him?

8. What does Father Schwartz do on Saturdays after confession? What happens as he passes the drug store that increases his sadness?

9. Why did Rudolph stay and confess despite his urge to leave while he waited at the confessional in Chapter 2?

10. What is Father Schwartz's mood at the start of the story? How do you know?

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