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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30, The Greatest Cross, Chapter 31, Just in Time for My Golden Jubilee, Chapter 32, I Cannot Bear My Cross Anymore, Chapter 33, 'Give Me the Obedience to Die!', Chapter 34, Padre Pio Lives!, Chapter 35, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, Epilogue, An Imitato.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the author say news of Padre Pio's stigmata spread slowly at first?
(a) He hid them for months.
(b) News of the stigmata spread quickly.
(c) People didn't believe they were real.
(d) Many people were sick at the time.

2. In Chapter 9, what convinced Padre Pio to return to the cloister?
(a) Benedetto physicall forced him back.
(b) A woman offered to sacrafice herself.
(c) His mother begged him.
(d) The blood he saw during the war.

3. Why did Maria refuse to gossip?
(a) She never heard gossip.
(b) She was too afraid.
(c) She was devout.
(d) She didn't want to be gossiped about.

4. What did Padre Pio say about San Giovanni Rotondo during World War II?
(a) That it would be his new home.
(b) That it would fall to Hitler.
(c) That it would see the devil.
(d) That it would be spared.

5. How did Dr. Lombardi describe Padre Pio's trances?
(a) Hightened awarenesses.
(b) True ecstacy.
(c) A fraud.
(d) Lost suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 15, what was Monsignor Pasquale Gagliardi accused of?

2. In Chapter 11, how many rules for spiritual growth did the author say Padre Pio had?

3. In Chapter 26, how long did the author say Padre Pio would hear confessions for each day?

4. What happened after Benedetto was forbidden from writing to Padre Pio?

5. In Chapter 24, what religious movement did Padre Pio try to stop?

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