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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. Who is Mlle Louise?

2. What have the children of the parish lost?

3. What does Sulpice do for the young priest?

4. Why is Mlle Chantal being sent away to a boarding school?

5. What does the Cure de Torcy believe about Dr. Delbende's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain how the Dean of Blangermont lectures to the young priest about balancing religion and business.

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

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

5. How has the young priest come to think about his parish so far?

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

7. Who is Mlle Louise?

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

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

10. Who is Louis Duprety?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the parish the way the young priest finds it when he arrives. What does it look like? Who are the people? What are the people like?

Essay Topic 2

What is the role of pride and arrogance in the young priest's life? Does he feel he is elevated in the eyes of the parishioners? In his own eyes? Why does he look down upon Louis Duprety who leaves the priesthood?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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