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

2. The parishioners are waiting for ______________________.
(a) someone to lead them to safety and shelter
(b) the weekend
(c) the return of Christ
(d) the next pay day

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

4. 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

5. Who is Louis Duprety?
(a) The parish council president
(b) The head of the Knights of Columbus
(c) The priest's friend from seminary
(d) The local baker

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the housekeeper demand right away?

2. What does the priest pause to reconsider?

3. Who is M. Pamyre?

4. Who is Mlle Louise?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. How does the young priest behave after he learns from the Cure de Torcy how the parishioners feel about him?

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

6. How does the priest first address being ill in his diary?

7. Explain Dr. Delbende's position on religion as he explains it to the young priest.

8. What is the Cure de Torcy's perspective on how Jesus views monks and priests?

9. What information does Mlle Louise share with the priest and how does he feel about knowing it?

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

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