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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does the priest ask the woman?
(a) He asks how long he can stay there.
(b) He asks if she has any brandy.
(c) He asks if the police have been there.
(d) Without looking at her he asks with embarrassment about Brigetta.

2. What does the lieutenant see on his walk through the town?
(a) He sees all the old symbols of the Church he has helped destroy.
(b) He sees Mr. Trench walking as though he had been drinking.
(c) He sees old women making the sign of the cross.
(d) He sees many new shops and a lot of business.

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

4. When the lieutenant arrives, why does he not recognize the priest?
(a) He has too many other things on his mind.
(b) He is in too big a hurry to pay attention to the priest.
(c) He never looks at him.
(d) He has forgotten what he looks like.

5. What does Captain Fellows learn about the policeman?
(a) That he is looking for land to buy.
(b) That he has a warrant for the captain's arrest.
(c) That he comes from Oaxaca.
(d) That he is a lieutenant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question from the mestizo alarms the priest?

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

3. To what Biblical character does the priest compare the mestizo?

4. What is the lieutenant's ambition?

5. What does the priest hear as he crosses the river on his mule?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is he not welcome in his home town?

2. What feeling does Greene evoke with the introduction of the mestizo?

3. What transpires in the police station the morning the stranger arrives in the town?

4. Who comes knocking at the door and what does he want?

5. After the priest gets his bottle of wine, what happens to it?

6. After the priest on his mule crosses the river, what happens that is cause for alarm?

7. What information does the Police chief have to impart to the lieutenant?

8. What is ominous about the parting of the priest and the mestizo?

9. Describe the condition of Father José at that time.

10. Describe the general situation as the novel opens.

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