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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. What does the priest hear from outside the hut where he is with the dying Yankee?
2. What is the Indian woman searching for in the maize?
3. What is it that makes the priest say the lieutenant is both right and wrong?
4. How well does the priest sleep in the crowded cell?
5. What agitates the Yankee while the priest is speaking with him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What transpires between the priest and the mestizo inside the jail?
2. Notwithstanding the civility that had transpired between the lieutenant and the priest, how does the lieutenant behave at the execution?
3. Leaving the plantation, what are conditions like as the priest looks for shelter?
4. 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?
5. While Mr. Trench is in the Police Chief's office, what does he witness?
6. Even after the Yankee refuses to make a confession, what does the priest do?
7. What is going on between Mr. and Mrs. Fellows in the hotel room?
8. Thinking everything is finished for him, what does the priest say to people inside the cell?
9. Describe how the priest decides to stay and return to the Indian village.
10. Going on, what refuge does the priest eventually find?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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.
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