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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. Scott begins to see the importance of what?

2. What does Scott admit about his feelings towards the Catholic Church.

3. What does Scott learn about the Protestant Church's opinions of contraception?

4. To whom does Scott make a petition?

5. Scott tells Kimberly that he wants to convert. Until when does Kimberly ask him to wait?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is his conversion to Catholicism foreshadowed?

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

3. What does Scott do when he begins his pastorate in Virginia?

4. What career would Kimberly like to have? Why does she change her mind?

5. What book does Scott read? What does he do with this new knowledge?

6. What is anonymously mailed to Scott? What does he do with this?

7. Why do they begin using Natural Family Planning?

8. How is Scott's job as assistant to the president of Grove City College beneficial for him?

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

10. What does Scott realize about his pastorate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Scott questions sola fide.

Part 1) What is sola fide? How does this go against Catholic doctrine? Why might Protestants believe this?

Part 2) How does Scott's realization about sola fide come about? Why might it have taken so long for him to realize this? Is he correct in his beliefs? Why or why not?

Part 3) How do his doubts regarding sola fide affect his feelings about the Reformation as a whole? Why do his doubts affect him this way?

Essay Topic 2

Scott feels supernatural joy when he receives the sacraments for the first time.

Part 1) What causes this supernatural joy? Why might this feel different from the rituals of his Presbyterian upbringing?

Part 2) Do you believe most people feel this sense of joy when partaking in the sacraments? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does Scott's joy contrast Kimberly's feelings? How does this affect their marriage?

Essay Topic 3

Scott and Kimberly are raised as Protestants.

Part 1) Describe their religious upbringings. Why is it important to know how they were raised? How does this knowledge affect the story?

Part 2) What does this initial introduction of the characters reveal about them?

Part 3) How do their religious upbringings contrast Catholicism? How do these beliefs play a role in their conversion?

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