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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 4, The Children in the Market Place.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Bonnemaman die?
(a) Summer of 1937.
(b) Summer of 1936.
(c) Fall of 1936.
(d) Fall of 1937.

2. What incident causes Merton personal pain at the university?
(a) He receives a poor review of his writing.
(b) His friend ignores him.
(c) He is cut from a sports team.
(d) A girl does not return his romantic feelings.

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

4. What did Owen ask Merton to do for him while he was ill?
(a) He asked Merton to pray for him.
(b) He wanted Merton to come with him to London.
(c) He asked Merton to take care of John Paul.
(d) He wanted Merton to do well in school

5. What is the "sign of the Water Bearer"?
(a) An advertisement for a hotel.
(b) The symbol for the month of January.
(c) Merton's astrological birth sign of Aquarius.
(d) The name of his father's art gallery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Mark Van Doren?

3. Of which place in St. Antonin does Merton have unpleasant memories?

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

5. Where did Merton attend school in England while with his aunt?

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