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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 awakens the boy in the middle of the night?
(a) Bad dreams.
(b) His mother's coughing.
(c) His younger brother who cannot sleep.
(d) A loud knocking at the door.

2. What is the symbolism Greene uses with the priest's card trick?
(a) To the lieutenant it symbolizes the tricks of the Church.
(b) To the lieutenant is symbolizes how the priest was able to hide for so long.
(c) That the priest will be able to get away by trickery.
(d) That life is like a game of cards.

3. What does the boy do as the lieutenant walks by?
(a) He draws the curtains so the lieutenant cannot see him crying.
(b) He grins and waves.
(c) He crinkles his nose and spits at the policeman.
(d) He asks if he can touch his gun again.

4. What is the priest's reply when the lieutenant then says he will be a martyr?
(a) Martyrs are a peso a dozen, but people need live priests.
(b) The priest says he cannot be a martyr, not after the life he has led.
(c) What good is being a martyr when you have to die to be one?
(d) Without the Church, the people will not remember the martyrs.

5. Back in the home where the mother is reading to her children, what does she say about the priest?
(a) That he is now a martyr.
(b) That because of him, the Church is dead.
(c) That he is not the same man who once visited them when she was ill.
(d) That they should not tell anyone he was once in their house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although he believes the mestizo is laying a trap for him, what does the priest do?

2. How far away is the Yankee when the priest sends the guide and mules back?

3. Where does the man with the gun take the priest?

4. What does the woman say she when she hears the priest say he has not repented of his sins and doesn't want to.

5. What happens to him instead of being killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the kindness of the lieutenant after telling the priest that he was found guilty at the trial and will be shot tomorrow.

2. What happens after the priest is left alone in his cell?

3. In spite of the lieutenant's assurances, Father José refuses to go to the jail to hear the priest's confession. What is the irony of that situation?

4. How does the priest make money for his trip to the border?

5. Going on, what refuge does the priest eventually find?

6. What are the preparations for the priest to escape to Las Casas?

7. Describe how the meeting between the lieutenant and the priest shows a different side of both men.

8. How does the priest awaken the next morning?

9. What is the irony of the priest's admission in the jail cell.

10. What transpires between the priest and the mestizo inside the jail?

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