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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does John Paul die?
(a) On a train in France.
(b) In a hospital in Canada.
(c) At Gethsemani.
(d) In a plane crash in the North Sea.

3. Who accepts Merton into the community of monks?
(a) Father Edmund.
(b) Abbot Dom Frederic.
(c) Abbot Snow.
(d) Father Brown.

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

5. What did Merton and his friends grow in Olean?
(a) They all grew beards.
(b) They grew a vegetable garden.
(c) They grew wheat.
(d) They grew their hair long.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Merton afraid to tell anyone when he is teaching at St. Bonaventure?

2. What does Merton desire just before going to Olean?

3. When does Merton plan to make a retreat at Gethsemani when writing to the Abbott?

4. What does the Baroness tell Merton when he questions his spiritual path and calling?

5. What country does Merton visit while waiting to enter the novitiate?

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