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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. Which child seems to hold some promise out of all the students?
2. What does the priest see in the confessional where nothing is ever clearly seen?
3. What does the young priest share at the area priests' monthly conference?
4. What decision does the young priest's housekeeper make?
5. What does the young priest feel men must do to have honor and respect?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain Dr. Delbende's position on religion as he explains it to the young priest.
2. Who is Mlle Louise?
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. In addition to his illness, what indignity must the young priest now manage?
5. Describe the scenario when Mlle Chantal approaches the priest after mass one morning.
6. Who is Seraphita Dumouchel?
7. What are the supernatural events that occur during Mlle Chantal's confession?
8. What is the premise of the novel, The Diary of a Country Priest?
9. How does the priest feel about the decision to hire a housekeeper?
10. What budget-related decision has the young priest reversed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One of the important themes in the book is that of the spiritual journey. Explain the different points where the young priest and the older Cure de Torcy are on their individual spiritual journeys.
Essay Topic 2
Of all the people who have attempted to damage the young priest's reputation, Seraphita is the only one who actually makes amends. Why is this young girl the only person who has a conscious regarding the right and wrong of what she has done? Is it because the priest had acknowledged her potential and she is finally living up to it? Or has she received some intervention of grace?
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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