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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. Of which place in St. Antonin does Merton have unpleasant memories?
(a) The Lycee.
(b) The church.
(c) The museum.
(d) The countryside.

2. What religious rule do the monks follow at Gethsemani?
(a) The Carmelite rule.
(b) The Trappist rule.
(c) The Dominican rule.
(d) The Franciscan rule.

3. Who is the Baroness?
(a) The woman who runs Friendship House.
(b) The woman who frustrates Merton romantically.
(c) The woman who volunteers at St. Bonaventure.
(d) The woman Merton meets on retreat.

4. Who put Merton on the academic path to Cambridge University?
(a) F.C. Doherty.
(b) Owen Merton.
(c) Aunt Maude.
(d) Uncle Ben.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Merton first talk with Father Edmund about becoming a priest?

2. What important event occurs while Merton is in Olean?

3. What did Merton discover about his father on the way to a cricket match?

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

5. Why does Merton not enter the military draft?

(see the answer key)

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