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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The priest feels that the parishioners are full of ___________________.
2. What does the young priest describe as the novel begins?
3. What has the young priest been unaware of during his time at the parish?
4. About what sacrament does the young priest wonder regarding his parishioners intentions?
5. What decision does the young priest's housekeeper make?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the Cure de Torcy's perspective on how Jesus views monks and priests?
2. What is the premise of the novel, The Diary of a Country Priest?
3. How does the young priest behave after he learns from the Cure de Torcy how the parishioners feel about him?
4. Explain the circumstances of the suspicion encircling the boy, Sulpice Mitonnet.
5. Explain how the Dean of Blangermont lectures to the young priest about balancing religion and business.
6. In addition to the injustice seen in Dr. Delbende's life, how else does the author show the theme of injustice in this chapter?
7. 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?
8. Describe the scenario when Mlle Chantal approaches the priest after mass one morning.
9. How does the priest behave after he receives the letter requesting his resignation?
10. Who is the Curé de Torcy and how does he advise the young priest?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The young priest experiences conflict between what he has learned and what he is experiencing? Explain the young priest's inner turmoil regarding money, ethics, faith, etc. as he had learned them and as he experiences them firsthand in the parish.
Essay Topic 2
What does the young priest represent to the parishioners that most of them do not like him? What is it about his fresh energy for faith and spirituality that makes the people, even the children, ridicule him and gossip about him? What lessons are to be learned for both the priest and his parishioners?
Essay Topic 3
The young priest is a tragic figure, made more so when he experiences the feeling of being young when riding the motorbike so close to the time of his death. What lessons does the author want the reader to learn from the young priest's life and death?
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