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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. What caused Day to pray daily?

2. What business did Sasha own?

3. What kind of credit unions did Peter help to create?

4. What kind of schools did Day want priests to create?

5. Why wasn’t Day fully happy when she was pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Peter’s ideas of study interfere with his other beliefs?

2. Why did Peter create Hospitality Houses?

3. What did Day say Peter was never careful enough about in his writing?

4. What did Day say about Peter’s life after his death?

5. What was the relationship like between Day and Forster?

6. What criticism did the Catholic Worker receive when it first began?

7. What did Day see about her early Catholicism when she looked back on it?

8. Who was Steve?

9. What did Day often regret about her life?

10. What made Day so nervous to have a baby?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Day had a very different lifestyle before she came to religion. How does her life before and after this acceptance of religion differ from her life with religion?

Essay Topic 2

Many different political ideas are spoken of in this book. What are some of these ideas, and how do they relate to each other?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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