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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. Where was Thomas Merton born?
(a) Rome, Italy.
(b) Berlin, Germany.
(c) Prades, France.
(d) Long Island, New York.

2. How does Merton describe his fellow students in France?
(a) The are vulgar, mean, and pitiless.
(b) They are socially inferior.
(c) They are extremely poor.
(d) They are cultured and refined.

3. Where is Merton's brother sent while Thomas is joining the monastery?
(a) On bombing raids over Europe.
(b) To visit the Baroness in Canada.
(c) To join their relatives in Europe.
(d) On a ship to the Pacific.

4. Where does Merton attend his first Mass?
(a) At Gethsemane in Kentucky.
(b) At the Church of Corpus Christi in New York.
(c) At St. John the Divine in New York.
(d) At St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.

5. What does Merton want Father Edmund to do for him in regard to the novitiate?
(a) He wants Father Edmund to stop trying to push him into a particular religious order.
(b) He wants Father Edmund to come with him to visit several monasteries.
(c) He wants Father Edmund to find a way to implement early admission to the monastery.
(d) He wants Father Edmund to call the abbot and apologize for Merton's behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merton write in his draft papers?

2. Where had Merton been shortly before his father died?

3. Where does Merton get a job as a teacher?

4. What is one of the last things mentioned in Chapter 4 of Part 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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