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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 4, The Children in the Market Place.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are M. and Mme. Privat?
(a) A couple Merton lives with in St. Antonin.
(b) The caretakers of the Lycee.
(c) The owners of Merton's favorite restaurant.
(d) A Catholic couple with whom Merton boards in Murat.

2. Who came to visit Merton in 1930?
(a) Pop, Bonnemaman, and John Paul.
(b) Bonnemaman and Pop.
(c) Pop and Owen.
(d) Owen and John Paul.

3. What incident causes Merton personal pain at the university?
(a) He receives a poor review of his writing.
(b) A girl does not return his romantic feelings.
(c) He is cut from a sports team.
(d) His friend ignores him.

4. How does Merton describe his mother?
(a) She was a British artist.
(b) She was an American pessimist.
(c) She was an American perfectionist.
(d) She was a divorced woman.

5. What philosophy does Merton explore while at the university?
(a) Stoicism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Materialism.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Thomas Merton born?

2. How does Merton describe the boys at Ripley Court?

3. Why does Owen Merton travel so frequently?

4. Who does Merton say gave him the only valuable religious and moral training he had received?

5. When does Bonnemaman die?

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