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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the cantina, who is the man the priest bumps into?
(a) A red shirt.
(b) The Chief of Police.
(c) The lieutenant.
(d) The mestizo.

2. What is Greene's contrast between the two priests in the story?
(a) Both men are sinners and cannot be considered good priests, yet they choose very different paths.
(b) One is a whisky priest and the other is not.
(c) The only difference is that one of them is married.
(d) One refuses his responsibility but the other tries to run away from responsibility.

3. How does Greene set up the scene to show the despair of Father José?
(a) Reading his Bible, he begins to weep.
(b) Walking in the cemetery, he comes upon a family burying a small child.
(c) His nagging wife leaves him.
(d) He awakes from a dream in which he had been saying the mass.

4. How does the boy's father explain to his son the need to tell the stories?
(a) He says the stories will teach the children how to read.
(b) He says the stories always have a happy ending.
(c) He says that now that the Church is gone, the stories are all they have.
(d) He says that the boy should humor his mother because she is sad.

5. What act of generosity does the priest perform on the way to the village?
(a) He hears the mestizo's confession.
(b) He gives the mestizo his crucifix.
(c) He shares a drink of wine.
(d) He gives the mestizo his last few coins.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what knowledge does the priest continue on to the village.

2. Back at the plantation after the priest is gone, what is Coral doing?

3. What information does the priest get from the Chief of Police?

4. What does the priest now begin to wonder?

5. Back to the mother reading stories to her children, what does she tell them about the grown up Juan?

(see the answer key)

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