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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, Meditatio Pauperis in Solitudine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the reader learn about Merton in the epilogue?
(a) That he has regrets about becoming a monk.
(b) That he is happy in the monastery.
(c) That he misses his friends.
(d) That he wants to leave the Order.

2. In Part 3, Chapter 3, what does Merton decide is the work he is meant to do?
(a) To own a newspaper.
(b) To work with the poor and pray.
(c) To become a priest in Rome.
(d) To write and teach.

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

4. Who is Bramachari?
(a) A Hindu monk Merton comes to know.
(b) A student of Protestantism.
(c) A philosophy professor Merton knows.
(d) A Buddhist monk known by Merton's friends.

5. How does Merton differentiate himself from an "ordinary Catholic"?
(a) He needs more from religion than simply going to church.
(b) He knows more about church history.
(c) He has a lifetime of church-going behind him.
(d) He felt his faith more strongly because of a hospital experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the student publications at the university housed?

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

3. What sends Merton into a frustrating "holding pattern"?

4. What does the epilogue of the book contain?

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

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