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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Cure de Torcy think about the young priest when he visits his home?

2. What happens to the priest one day as he is making his visits to parishioners?

3. What does Mlle Chantal tell the priest about her mother?

4. What disease does the priest think he has?

5. Why does the priest tell Seraphita that he is sad?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the priest learn from the sacristan regarding the general perception people have of him?

2. What happens after the priest regains consciousness?

3. Why has the girl, Seraphita, tied a string tightly around her leg?

4. Explain the irony of the doctor's physical health.

5. Describe the meeting between the priest and M. le Comte.

6. What is the diagnosis of the young priest's disease?

7. What is the state of the priest's health in Chapter 7?

8. Where does the priest go after his doctor's appointment in Lille?

9. The book ends not with a diary entry but a letter. Explain the originator of the letter and its contents.

10. What advice does the doctor give the priest?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the young priest represent to the parishioners that most of them do not like him? What is it about his fresh energy for faith and spirituality that makes the people, even the children, ridicule him and gossip about him? What lessons are to be learned for both the priest and his parishioners?

Essay Topic 2

Both the young doctor and young priest have terminal illnesses yet the doctor watches in shock and surprise when the priest cries at hearing the diagnosis. Is the doctor's atheism a factor in his reaction to the priest? Explain. What other reasons could the doctor have for his beliefs?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the parish the way the young priest finds it when he arrives. What does it look like? Who are the people? What are the people like?

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