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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Pop tell Merton while Owen was ill?
(a) That the Great Depression had ruined him financially.
(b) That Merton and his brother would be financially secure after their father's death.
(c) That he and Bonnemaman were moving to Paris.
(d) That John Paul would be joining him at Oakham.

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

5. What impresses Merton about St. Antonin?
(a) The house he lived in.
(b) The people he met there.
(c) It was in France.
(d) It was laid out in a circular shape in the 13th century.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who put Merton on the academic path to Cambridge University?

3. What kind of music did Merton especially like when he felt like a rebel in New York?

4. What are the contents of the note Merton receives from his father?

5. Who is Bob Lax?

Short Essay Questions

1. What significant event in Merton's monastic life forms part of the Epilogue?

2. What are some of the errors Merton finds in the religion of Protestants?

3. How does the death of Merton's mother affect him?

4. What important event takes place after Merton's acceptance into the monastery?

5. What is the significance of a book Merton purchased at Scribner's?

6. What are some examples of Merton's impatience in Part 3, Chapter 1?

7. What does Merton do while waiting to enter the monastery?

8. What does Merton gain during his summer in Olean?

9. What criticisms can be made of the way Merton ended his book?

10. Why does Merton attend Zion Church?

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