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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 1, Magnetic North.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After graduating from college, what does Merton do?
(a) He gets a job as a journalist.
(b) He looks for work that will bring him fortune and fame.
(c) He applies to graduate school.
(d) He begins a teaching career.

2. What lessens Merton's fear of Catholicism?
(a) Buying a college philosophy textbook.
(b) Reading a book he bought by accident in New York.
(c) Meeting a Catholic in Scribner's.
(d) Reading a book given to him by a professor.

3. What medical problem plagued Merton on a backpacking trip in the Rhine Valley?
(a) He broke his jaw and was hospitalized.
(b) He suffered a broken leg.
(c) He had a heart problem and fainting spells.
(d) He had an abscessed tooth that led to gangrene.

4. Where are the student publications at the university housed?
(a) The fifth floor.
(b) The second floor.
(c) The third floor.
(d) The fourth floor.

5. Where did Merton's father receive medical treatment for his cancer?
(a) At Middlesex Hospital in London.
(b) At home with a personal physician.
(c) At a hospital in Paris.
(d) At Durston Hospital in Scotland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was his father building in St. Antonin?

2. When does Bonnemaman die?

3. What does Merton love about America?

4. Who visited Merton in St. Antonin?

5. What words best describe Merton at the university?

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