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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the young priest learn about his friend, Duprety?
(a) He has died
(b) He has a terminal illness
(c) He is no longer working as a priest
(d) He has been transferred to another parish

2. What does the young priest buy when the cleaning lady starts?
(a) New underwear
(b) Cream and lemons
(c) Coffee
(d) Cleaning supplies

3. What does Sulpice do for the young priest?
(a) Replaces the candles in church
(b) Leads the church choir
(c) Helps with work around the presbytery
(d) Delivers groceries

4. What is the only thing the young priest eats?
(a) Clear soup
(b) Oatmeal
(c) Bread and butter
(d) Bread soaked in wine

5. What has concerned the priest about the girl, Seraphita?
(a) She is the butt of jokes at school
(b) She is not learning like she should
(c) She has a hearing problem
(d) She is very flirtatious

6. What does Mlle Louise think she should do with Mlle Chantal?
(a) Put her up for adoption
(b) Ground her
(c) Send her to boarding school
(d) Homeschool her

7. About what sacrament does the young priest wonder regarding his parishioners intentions?
(a) Holy Communion
(b) Last Rites
(c) Baptism
(d) Confession

8. The young priest serves as the __________ of the story.
(a) moral
(b) narrator
(c) antagonist
(d) comic

9. Who is Dr. Delbende?
(a) A scientist
(b) An economist
(c) A surgeon
(d) A physician

10. What is another subject the young priest thinks he should study?
(a) Stamp collecting
(b) Sports
(c) Fishing
(d) Cooking

11. What does M le Comte warn the young priest about?
(a) Not to move in too quickly among the parishioners who bear fresh wounds from the war
(b) Not to trust the local banker with financial planning
(c) Not to wear himself out with too many plans at once
(d) Not to drink too much wine in public

12. What decision does the young priest's housekeeper make?
(a) To change her hours
(b) To change her shopping day
(c) To convert to Catholicism
(d) To resign

13. What is taking its toll on the young priest?
(a) Stress
(b) Gossip
(c) The Bishop's admonitions
(d) Money problems

14. What does the priest pause to reconsider?
(a) Why he is writing a diary
(b) Why there is so much hate in the world
(c) Why he became a priest
(d) Why people don't come to church

15. Who has been gossiping about the young priest?
(a) The nuns
(b) The school children
(c) The other priests
(d) The townspeople

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject is painted on the oleograph in the Cure de Torcy's oratory?

2. What was Mlle Louise's original career goal?

3. What have the children of the parish lost?

4. What does the priest think the parishioners think about him now?

5. In what area does the Cure de Torcy encourage the young priest?

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