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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the priest return to the banana plantation?
(a) He only knows how to go there.
(b) He is looking for Coral who offered to help him.
(c) He hopes to find the American fugitive.
(d) He thinks it is safe because the lieutenant has already been there.

2. Later, in another village, what does an old man request of the priest?
(a) He asks the priest to say mass and hear confessions.
(b) He asks the priest to hurry and leave.
(c) He asks the priest to renounce his faith and surrender.
(d) He asks the priest to share his wine.

3. What name do the people give to priests who smell of alcohol?
(a) Whisky priest.
(b) Wine bibber.
(c) Pickled priest.
(d) Smelly sermonizer.

4. What new plan does the lieutenant come up with for finding the priest?
(a) Taking hostages and killing them if the people do not turn over the priest.
(b) Putting up roadblocks all over the region.
(c) Burning down the villages where the people do not cooperate.
(d) Bringing in extra troops from Mexico City.

5. As they reach the town, what is the priest's request of the lieutenant?
(a) That his execution will be quick.
(b) That the children be kept away from his execution.
(c) That he will have a good lawyer.
(d) That he get Father José to hear his confession.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Captain Fellows refuse the priest's request for brandy?

2. Why does the priest say that the lieutenant's dream of helping the people is unrealistic?

3. What did one former priest do about which the lieutenant likes to think?

4. How does the mestizo attempt to get the priest to admit that he is a priest?

5. What act of generosity does the priest perform on the way to the village?

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