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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the situation as the novel opens?
(a) Religion has been outlawed in a rural Mexican state and priests are considered traitors.
(b) Mexican people are revolting over the prohibition against religion.
(c) Debates are held about the influence of religion.
(d) It is rumored that religion is about to be outlawed.

2. What do the police suspect about the priest?
(a) They think he may have gone to the Yucatan.
(b) They suspect he is in Mexico City.
(c) They think he is probably in Vera Cruz by now.
(d) They believe he tried to escape to Vera Cruz but he did not catch the boat.

3. When Captain Fellows goes to the barn to find the priest, what does he say?
(a) He tells him he can stay as long as he likes.
(b) He asks if he can get anything for the priest.
(c) He asks what he had been doing with his daughter.
(d) He tells him he has no business here.

4. What does the priest take it to mean when the Indian woman says, Americano?
(a) That her husband is in America.
(b) That the boy is an American.
(c) That this wouldn't happen in America.
(d) That the American fugitive killed the boy.

5. On his morning walk, what does Mr. Trench hear?
(a) A monkey chattering in the trees.
(b) Horses racing into town.
(c) A man speaking English.
(d) The sound of an explosion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Coral want her father to speak to the policeman?

2. Where is Captain Fellows' wife when he reaches his house?

3. What is happening to the priests in this Mexican state?

4. What brings out a feeling of compassion in the priest for the mestizo?

5. What is the story about that a mother tells her children?

(see the answer key)

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