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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. What authors have a particular effect on Merton at university?
(a) Freud and Jung.
(b) Joyce and Eliot.
(c) Woolf and James.
(d) Chesterton and Snow.

2. What political activities does Merton participate in at the university?
(a) Student demonstrations and meetings.
(b) He is not involved with politics at the university.
(c) Church-sponsored lectures.
(d) Writing for political publications.

3. How does Merton describe the boys at Ripley Court?
(a) They are pleasant and happy.
(b) They are cruel to him.
(c) They are snobbish and unfriendly.
(d) They dislike sports.

4. Where did Merton visit his father after the end of the school term at Oakham?
(a) Rome.
(b) Scotland.
(c) London.
(d) France.

5. What impresses Merton about St. Antonin?
(a) The house he lived in.
(b) The people he met there.
(c) It was laid out in a circular shape in the 13th century.
(d) It was in France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Pop allow the 15-year-old Merton to do that really impressed him?

2. What does Merton like about France?

3. What university does Merton attend in New York?

4. What did Pop do that embarrassed Merton?

5. What medical problem plagued Merton on a backpacking trip in the Rhine Valley?

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