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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 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.

2. What is the priest's response when a man says it is better not to believe in God?
(a) He asks if they believed the Governor did not exist would they not be in prison?
(b) He says that God hears blasphemy whenever it is spoken.
(c) He says the man will change his mind just before he dies.
(d) He says the man is probably right, but he cannot change this late in life.

3. Where does the priest wake up after meeting the man with the gun?
(a) In the home of the Lehrs, a brother and sister from Germany.
(b) In jail.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) Inside the small church.

4. After he finds a place by an old man, what does he hear?
(a) The old man thinks gringos are responsible for all the problems in Mexico.
(b) The old man blames the lieutenant for all his troubles.
(c) The man begins talking angrily about priests, blaming them for the misery in his life.
(d) The old man thinks his family had him arrested to get his money.

5. What is it that the priest cannot think of?
(a) Where he left his Bible.
(b) Why he did not bless the mestizo.
(c) What his daughter looks like.
(d) Just one soul he has saved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What option does the lieutenant offer to the priest?

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

3. What does Mr. Trench see out of the window at the Police chief's office?

4. What awakens the boy in the middle of the night?

5. To what does the priest compare the disciplines of the church?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the implication of the visitor to the boy's house in the middle of the night?

2. How does the priest awaken the next morning?

3. Even after the Yankee refuses to make a confession, what does the priest do?

4. What transpires inside the hut where the Yankee is dying?

5. What seems to be different about the priest's arrest?

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

7. What is going on between Mr. and Mrs. Fellows in the hotel room?

8. What feelings pass through the priest as he luxuriates in the Lehrs' kindness?

9. By the time they reach the outskirts of the city, what seems to be the relationship between the lieutenant and the priest?

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

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