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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 3, The Sleeping Volcano.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Merton want Father Edmund to do for him in regard to the novitiate?
(a) He wants Father Edmund to stop trying to push him into a particular religious order.
(b) He wants Father Edmund to find a way to implement early admission to the monastery.
(c) He wants Father Edmund to call the abbot and apologize for Merton's behavior.
(d) He wants Father Edmund to come with him to visit several monasteries.

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

3. How does Merton feel about Catholicism when he first goes to the university?
(a) He believes it represents the character of God.
(b) He wants to avoid everything about it.
(c) He thinks it is mysterious and secretive.
(d) He believes in it completely.

4. Who gave Merton his First Communion?
(a) Father McGough at Corpus Christi.
(b) Father Gerdy at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
(c) Father Rice at St. John's.
(d) Father Moore at Corpus Christi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bramachari?

2. What medical emergency does Merton experience while waiting to enter a monastery?

3. What impresses Merton about St. Antonin?

4. When was Merton baptized?

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

(see the answer key)

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