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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 1, With a Great Price.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Merton react to his first exposure to death?
(a) With deep terror.
(b) With despair and foreboding.
(c) With innocence and curiosity.
(d) With fear and sadness.

2. After graduating from college, what does Merton do?
(a) He gets a job as a journalist.
(b) He looks for work that will bring him fortune and fame.
(c) He applies to graduate school.
(d) He begins a teaching career.

3. What is the "sign of the Water Bearer"?
(a) Merton's astrological birth sign of Aquarius.
(b) The name of his father's art gallery.
(c) The symbol for the month of January.
(d) An advertisement for a hotel.

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

5. What was his father building in St. Antonin?
(a) He builds an art studio.
(b) He builds a house for the family.
(c) He builds a piece of sculpture.
(d) He builds an extra bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Merton spend his school holidays?

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

4. What was the name of the school Merton attended in 1929?

5. How does Merton feel about Catholicism when he first goes to the university?

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