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Merton spent his infancy with expatriate parents in what country? |
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| 2.
If you've ever heard a tape of Merton, his Americanese is pretty standard, which is odd considering that during his formative years he was educated where? |
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In spite of an early false start, Merton had a pretty successful academic career at what famous university? |
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In the course of his self-admittedly misspent youth, Merton was involved in a particular scandal that was hushed up for a long time. What was it? |
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In his early twenties Merton converted to Catholicism, and, in spite of an imperfect conversion of manners, aspired at first to join which religious order? |
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Behaving better all the time, Merton took up a teaching position at which Catholic college? |
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Taking a deep breath so to speak, Merton took another stab at the religious life by applying to what monastic order? |
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When he was accepted into the monastery, like all monks he held what status for the first few months? |
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Merton had already submitted a book for publication prior to entering the monastery. What was its title? |
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Which is the best characterization of Merton's early years in the monastery? |
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The abbott who admitted Merton to the monastery died shortly thereafter. Most of Merton's monastic life saw him in a difficult relationship with the next abbott, whose name was ______. |
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Of the classic Trappist monastic vows, Merton had the most difficulty with which? |
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The monastery where Merton lived was located in Kentucky and had the somewhat ironic name of Our Lady of ________. |
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Merton wrote a very great deal at the monastery. One of his purely religious works, a fine piece of mystical theology, is called Seeds of ___________. |
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In his search for a deeper interior life, Merton was finally able to convince the abbott, against all recent custom in the order, to allow him to live as a(n) _______________. |
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As he matured in the monastic life, Merton became involved in the world around him. Which of the following social or church movements of the sixties did not interest him? |
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The monastery made many changes during Merton's years there. Which of the following was not one of them? |
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Merton was in fact excused from many monastic disciplines. He had what is called a "relief in refectory" (a dispensation from dietary requirements) because he could not digest products made from what? |
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Never one to let the story of his life run dull, Merton in his later years risked another scandal by doing what? |
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Merton did leave the monastery a number of times in later years, a mixed blessing when one considers that he met his death in 1968 while attending a monastic conference in Southeast Asia. Of what did he apparently die? |
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