View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the nature of Louis Duprety's letter to the young priest?
(a) Louis is sick and wants the priest to come
(b) He asks the priest for money
(c) He asks for advice to help a parishioner
(d) He is hosting a birthday party for a mutual friend

3. Where did the Cure de Torcy attend seminary school?
(a) Saint Sebastian of the Woods
(b) Saint-Sulpice
(c) College of William and Mary
(d) Notre Dame

4. What does the young priest feel men must do to have honor and respect?
(a) Earn the right
(b) Teach catechism
(c) Become a priest
(d) Go to confession

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

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

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

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

9. What does the priest now put in his wine?
(a) Lemon
(b) Water
(c) Syrup
(d) Sugar

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

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

12. Why is Mlle Chantal being sent away to a boarding school?
(a) To learn etiquette
(b) To preserve a secret
(c) To get a rich husband
(d) To travel

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

14. What does the priest tell Seraphita's mother about her daughter?
(a) She is a scholar
(b) She is a coquette
(c) She is a good athlete
(d) She is a bully

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the Cure de Torcy's bedroom furnished?

2. What does M. le Comte tell the priest about Sulpice Mitonnet?

3. What does Mlle Louise tell the priest about Mlle Chantal?

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

5. The priest feels that the parishioners are full of ___________________.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 484 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample