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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 is Merton afraid to tell anyone when he is teaching at St. Bonaventure?
(a) His deepest and darkest sins.
(b) About his experiences overseas.
(c) That he stills yearns to be a monk.
(d) The condition of his teeth.

2. What is the final simple profession Merton makes in the book?
(a) He becomes head of the monastery.
(b) He takes his permanent vows.
(c) He admits his sins.
(d) He baptizes his friend.

3. Where is Olean?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Western Canada.
(c) Upstate New York.
(d) Southern France.

4. What, in Part 2, Chapter 2, causes Merton to feel enthusiastic?
(a) Going to confession.
(b) Learning Latin.
(c) Playing sports.
(d) Writing poems.

5. Who suggests that Merton withdraw his application for the novitiate?
(a) Father Edmund.
(b) Bob Lax.
(c) Ed Rice.
(d) Dan Walsh.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What religious order does Merton first consider joining?

3. What philosophy does Merton explore while at the university?

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

5. What error does Merton think Protestants commit?

(see the answer key)

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