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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. How does Merton react to his first exposure to death?
(a) With fear and sadness.
(b) With despair and foreboding.
(c) With innocence and curiosity.
(d) With deep terror.

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

3. What author was an enduring influence on Merton?
(a) John Donne.
(b) G.M. Hopkins.
(c) William Blake.
(d) William Faulkner.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Merton see as his future occupation in England?

3. What does Merton do during the summer he returned to New York after a trip to Rome?

4. What political activities does Merton participate in at the university?

5. What are Merton's childhood memories of his brother?

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