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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 4, The Sweet Savor of Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Merton love about America?
(a) Its cultural life.
(b) Its geography and landscapes.
(c) Its ideals and work ethic.
(d) Its wealth and power.

2. What behavior characterizes Merton's life while he is teaching?
(a) He no longer prays daily.
(b) He works during the day and goes to bars at night.
(c) He tells everyone he knows that he wants to be a priest.
(d) He schedules his life as if he were a monk in a monastery.

3. Who does Merton talk to when he first starts to tell people he wants to be a priest?
(a) Dan Walsh.
(b) Robert Lax.
(c) Mark Van Doren.
(d) Ed Rice.

4. What are Merton's childhood memories of his brother?
(a) His brother was liked by older boys.
(b) His brother cried a lot.
(c) His brother was a tag-along.
(d) His brother went with him to school.

5. What sends Merton into a frustrating "holding pattern"?
(a) Finding out that he was taken off the waiting list at St. Bonaventure.
(b) Being told to withdraw his application to the monastery and that he has no vocation to be a priest.
(c) Being told that he must wait to find a teaching job until the next year.
(d) Discovering that his friends had sabotaged him in his desire to be a priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Merton's role at Friendship House?

2. Where did Merton's father receive medical treatment for his cancer?

3. What stops Merton from making his retreat at Gethsemani?

4. What, in Part 1, Chapter 4, is noticeably lacking the Merton's autobiography?

5. Who accepts Merton into the community of monks?

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