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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprising thing does the young priest do in a moment of self-pity?
(a) Schedules a vacation
(b) Drinks two bottles of wine
(c) Cries on the shoulder of a catechism student
(d) Refuses to hear confessions

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has told the Dean about the gossip?

2. What does the young priest feel men must do to have honor and respect?

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

4. How do the parishioners overcome their boredom?

5. What does the priest tell Seraphita's mother about her daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the priest behave after he receives the letter requesting his resignation?

2. What budget-related decision has the young priest reversed?

3. In addition to his illness, what indignity must the young priest now manage?

4. Dr. Delbende, the young priest's physician, dies from a gunshot wound which supposedly occurred while cleaning the gun. What is the unofficial story of the doctor's death?

5. Explain the perceptions the young priest has of the people in the parish.

6. Who is Louis Duprety?

7. What is the premise of the novel, The Diary of a Country Priest?

8. How does the young priest try to find a purpose for himself at the parish?

9. What are the young priest's feelings about the sacrament of confession?

10. Who is the Curé de Torcy and how does he advise the young priest?

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