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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Greene introduce the lieutenant?

2. How do the people respond to his reappearance in the village?

3. Where do they put the old photo of the priest?

4. What does Captain Fellows tell the policeman that satisfies him?

5. Why does Coral tell her father she would not allow the lieutenant to search the place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Just as the mass is concluding, what occurs in the village?

2. Explain how Greene establishes the character of Father José.

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

4. How do Mr. Trench and the priest meet?

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

6. Why has the priest come to the capital city where he sees the mestizo talking with the police?

7. In the village of the old man in a hammock, describe the request that is made of the priest.

8. All that is left of the church is a priest who renounced his religion and the stranger, a whiskey priest. How does the woman's husband sum up their reality?

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

10. What does Greene reveal about the priest in his thoughts on his way home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Father José represents religious people who are religious for the wrong reasons and without loyalty. His weakness is selfishness and fear. Write an essay about how real commitment is determined by what a person is willing to give up to remain loyal to that commitment.

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper about the mestizo as a personification of Satan. Use examples of his physical description and his cunning ways to show how he, and not the lieutenant, is the representation of pure evil in the novel. Include the interaction between him and the priest to show how he was able to use the priest's deep seated faith to work against him.

Essay Topic 3

Interestingly, it is a pair of Lutherans who offer the greatest help to the priest. Write a paper on the importance of religious tolerance in the world. Include in your paper how religious intolerance creates multiple problems that work against peaceful co-existence.

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