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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 2, True North.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What keeps Merton from athletic participation?
(a) The struggle and pain associated with practice.
(b) The fear of being on the losing side.
(c) A concern about physical injury.
(d) The pain of being compared to his father.

2. Where did Merton's father receive medical treatment for his cancer?
(a) At Durston Hospital in Scotland.
(b) At a hospital in Paris.
(c) At home with a personal physician.
(d) At Middlesex Hospital in London.

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

4. What, in Part 1, Chapter 4, is noticeably lacking the Merton's autobiography?
(a) His feelings about religion.
(b) A description of his travels.
(c) The names of his girlfriends.
(d) The names of his family members.

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 to withdraw his application to the monastery and that he has no vocation to be a priest.
(d) Being told that he must wait to find a teaching job until the next year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merton think his motive should be for writing?

2. Who are M. and Mme. Privat?

3. How does Thomas Merton feel about his father?

4. What was his father building in St. Antonin?

5. Who is Father Edmund?

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