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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 Scott admit about his feelings towards the Catholic Church.

2. They are eventually engaged and are delighted to find that they both want what?

3. Scott spends four years at Grove City College studying what?

4. Scott presents his Catholic arguments. Is he satisfied with the replies he receives?

5. Scott begins his pastorate in what state?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Young Life change Scott's life?

2. What does Scott realize about his pastorate?

3. In what church is Scott Hahn raised?

4. How do Scott's views on Holy Communion change?

5. How does Scott begin to change his opinion about the Catholic Church?

6. Why does Kimberly tell Scott to wait to convert?

7. What is the Protestant theory of justification, or how one becomes saved?

8. What do Scott and his fellow seminarians feel about the Catholic tradition?

9. Where does Scott attend college? What is his major?

10. Describe Scott's teenage years.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

For much of the story, Kimberly's beliefs and feelings contrast with Scott's.

Part 1) How and when do their beliefs being to differ? How do these differences affect each of them?

Part 2) How do these characters reconcile? Was the reconciliation foreshadowed? If so, how? If not, how was it surprising or unexpected?

Part 3) Do you believe these characters will stay reconciled? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Scott discusses an "ecclesiastical culture shock."

Part 1) What is meant by ecclesiastical? How is this a culture shock? For whom is this a culture shock?

Part 2) What causes this culture shock?

Part 3) Can one recover from this culture shock? Why or why not? Should all people have to deal with this culture shock? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Kimberly converts on Easter in 1990.

Part 1) Why does she decide to convert? Does she do it willingly? Why or why not?

Part 2) How does she feel when she converts? How does this compare to Scott's conversion?

Part 3) How does her conversion affect her life and marriage? Could these changes have taken place without her conversion? Why or why not?

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