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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lessens Merton's fear of Catholicism?
(a) Reading a book given to him by a professor.
(b) Reading a book he bought by accident in New York.
(c) Buying a college philosophy textbook.
(d) Meeting a Catholic in Scribner's.

2. What book leads Merton to review his opinion of Catholicism?
(a) Philosophy in Medieval Times.
(b) Catholics in Medieval Philosophy.
(c) The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy.
(d) The Philosophy of Catholics in the Middle Ages.

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

4. How does Merton describe his mother?
(a) She was a British artist.
(b) She was an American perfectionist.
(c) She was an American pessimist.
(d) She was a divorced woman.

5. What revelation did Merton have when attending his first Mass?
(a) That many ordinary people were more conscious of God than of each other.
(b) That he did not feel out of place there.
(c) That many people at the church liked him.
(d) That many people came to Mass.

6. Who came to visit Merton in 1930?
(a) Pop and Owen.
(b) Pop, Bonnemaman, and John Paul.
(c) Bonnemaman and Pop.
(d) Owen and John Paul.

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

8. Where did Merton spend his school holidays?
(a) With Pop and Bonnemaman.
(b) With his godfather who was a doctor in London.
(c) With his Aunt Maude.
(d) With Owen in London.

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

10. What medical problem plagued Merton on a backpacking trip in the Rhine Valley?
(a) He broke his jaw and was hospitalized.
(b) He had an abscessed tooth that led to gangrene.
(c) He had a heart problem and fainting spells.
(d) He suffered a broken leg.

11. What philosophy does Merton explore while at the university?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Stoicism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Materialism.

12. Who does Merton say gave him the only valuable religious and moral training he had received?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His mother.
(c) His teachers.
(d) His father.

13. What kind of music did Merton especially like when he felt like a rebel in New York?
(a) Violin concertos
(b) Gregorian chant
(c) Beethoven symphonies
(d) The jazz of Duke Ellington

14. Where did Merton attend school in England while with his aunt?
(a) A church school.
(b) Ripley Court.
(c) Eton.
(d) He was home-schooled.

15. What is Merton silent about in Part 1, Chapter 4?
(a) The people he lives with.
(b) The names of his favorite writers.
(c) His love affair at the university.
(d) Details of his sins.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Bonnemaman die?

2. Why does Merton go to class with the younger French children?

3. Who is Bob Lax?

4. What action he performed in the summer of 1937 prompted Merton to take another step on his journey to faith?

5. What does Merton love about America?

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