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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 2, Our Lady of the Museums.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Merton go to class with the younger French children?
(a) He needs to change his attitude.
(b) He teaches them American games.
(c) He disciplines them.
(d) He must learn the French language.

2. Who does Merton say gave him the only valuable religious and moral training he had received?
(a) His mother.
(b) His teachers.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His father.

3. What did Pop do that embarrassed Merton?
(a) He threw money at the French people from his car window.
(b) He sang loudly in a bar.
(c) He disciplined Merton in public.
(d) He made Merton sit in the corner at dinner.

4. How does Merton describe his parents?
(a) They disliked one another and planned to divorce.
(b) They were focused on wealth and social status.
(c) They were independent and free of small prejudices.
(d) They were uncaring people who left him with strangers.

5. Who are Pop and Bonnemaman?
(a) People he met at school.
(b) Neighbors of his mother.
(c) Thomas Merton's grandparents.
(d) Friends of his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Merton's parents do for a living?

2. How does Merton react to his first exposure to death?

3. What are Merton's childhood memories of his brother?

4. When was Thomas Merton born?

5. Of which place in St. Antonin does Merton have unpleasant memories?

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