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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. Where did Day meet Father Roy?

3. What did Day and Peter have to work out when they began working together?

4. What kind of science did Forster study?

5. How many people were buying Peter and Day’s product by the end of their first year working together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Day often regret about her life?

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

3. What had Peter been heavily involved in before meeting Day?

4. What did Peter help Day learn about?

5. Why did Day begin going to retreats?

6. What was Day’s favorite way to help the poor?

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

8. What caused Day to start praying daily?

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

10. What difficulty did the Catholic Worker face when Peter died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Day had a very interesting political journey. How did her political ideas change throughout the book, and what caused this?

Essay Topic 2

Day spoke of regrets she had about her life despite how happy she was. What were these regrets, and how did she respond to them?

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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