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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 1, With a Great Price.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the Columbia Review and the Spectator have in common?
(a) They are magazines Merton disliked.
(b) They are publications that represented failure to Merton.
(c) They are magazines that Pop wrote for.
(d) They are both student publications Merton was involved with.

3. Where are the student publications at the university housed?
(a) The second floor.
(b) The third floor.
(c) The fifth floor.
(d) The fourth floor.

4. How did Merton view his childhood?
(a) He worried about having a home.
(b) He hated living in Europe.
(c) He felt it was odd.
(d) He thought it was like everyone else's.

5. How did Merton's parents foster his love for the monastic life?
(a) They bought him many things.
(b) They introduced him to monks.
(c) They disliked anything they considered to be bourgeois.
(d) They encouraged him to be wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merton find disappointing about the pastor at Zion Church?

2. Who is Mark Van Doren?

3. Why does Merton say he was "truly happy" in England?

4. With whom does Merton stay in England?

5. How does Thomas Merton feel about his father?

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