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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What topic does the young priest know he needs to study?
(a) English literature
(b) Biology
(c) Crops and farming
(d) Housekeeping

2. Who sends the young priest two hundred francs?
(a) The Altar Society
(b) Uncle Richard
(c) His mother
(d) Aunt Philomene

3. The young priest realizes that the problems of ordinary people are more difficult than those of ________________________.
(a) priests and bishops
(b) wealthy people
(c) monks
(d) barnyard animals

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

5. What does the priest write in his diary about his health at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) He has only a few months to live
(b) He is cured
(c) He is feeling better
(d) He is in horrible pain every day

6. What does the priest note about the handwriting inside Mlle Louise's prayer book found lying in the aisle at church?
(a) It is small and well-formed
(b) It it completely illegible
(c) It is the same handwriting of the letter asking for the priest's resignation
(d) It is large and scrawling

7. Who is Sulpice Mitonnet?
(a) A local baker
(b) A groomsman
(c) A boy from the parish
(d) A farmer

8. What decision does the young priest make to keep expenses down?
(a) Washes his own clothes
(b) Does not heat the house in the winter
(c) Does not hire a cleaning lady
(d) Eats only one meal each day

9. What does Mlle Louise tell the priest about Mlle Chantal?
(a) She is not studying at all
(b) She is boy crazy
(c) She is becoming more difficult
(d) She is smoking in her room

10. What else does the Dean lecture the young priest about?
(a) His housekeeper's wages
(b) His catechism lesson plans
(c) Outbursts against business and business owners
(d) The state of disrepair of the church

11. What does the young priest share at the area priests' monthly conference?
(a) Problems of his parishoners
(b) Food the housekeeper has prepared
(c) A new plan for managing his parish
(d) Travel expenses

12. What does the housekeeper demand right away?
(a) A bonus
(b) More money
(c) Better hours
(d) More time for lunch

13. What did the grocer send to the young priest?
(a) Aged cheese
(b) Fresh baguettes
(c) Ripe fruit
(d) Elderberry wine

14. What does the priest realize is leading him during his time with Mlle Chantal?
(a) A supernatual force
(b) A serious obligation
(c) A stubborn streak
(d) An empathetic temper

15. Where does the young priest fall asleep on a bad night?
(a) A church bench
(b) The floor
(c) The couch
(d) A rocking chair

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Cure de Torcy call the oleograph?

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

3. The young priest thinks that the elder priests _________________________________.

4. What is the nature of Louis Duprety's letter to the young priest?

5. What has the young priest been unaware of during his time at the parish?

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