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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 encouraged Merton to take another step toward religion in Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) The death of his father.
(b) Praying for Aunt Maude.
(c) His friend Andrew at Cambridge.
(d) The frescoes he saw in ancient cathedrals.

2. How does Thomas Merton feel about his father?
(a) Merton's father is his hero.
(b) Merton is critical of his behavior.
(c) Merton dislikes his father's job.
(d) Merton wants to be a perfectionist like him.

3. What connection did Uncle Ben have with Durston House?
(a) He was a teacher there.
(b) He had been headmaster there.
(c) He went to school there.
(d) He played on its cricket team.

4. How does Merton describe this book?
(a) It is an autobiography of faith.
(b) It is a story about his father.
(c) It is the biography of his mother.
(d) It is the story of his travels.

5. Who are M. and Mme. Privat?
(a) The owners of Merton's favorite restaurant.
(b) The caretakers of the Lycee.
(c) A Catholic couple with whom Merton boards in Murat.
(d) A couple Merton lives with in St. Antonin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Owen ask Merton to do for him while he was ill?

2. When was Merton's brother born?

3. What did Pop tell Merton while Owen was ill?

4. Who visited Merton in St. Antonin?

5. Who does Merton say gave him the only valuable religious and moral training he had received?

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