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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What unusual thing does the priest do in prison?
(a) He tells people there that he is a priest.
(b) He holds a mass in the prison.
(c) He starts offering loud prayers.
(d) He begins to behave like the crazy man.

2. Why does the woman he meets in the village not recognize him at first?
(a) She tells the priest that he needs a haricut.
(b) She tells the priest that he has lost a lot of weight.
(c) She tells the priest that it has been so long since anyone there has seen him.
(d) She tells the priest he looks like a common man because of his clothes.

3. How does the priest seek assistance in the city?
(a) He asks a grocer to give him some fruit.
(b) He looks for the sign of a fish on a house.
(c) He meets a beggar and offers to pay him for his help buying wine.
(d) He goes to an underground meeting of religious people.

4. What is the priests reaction when Maria tells him Brigetta was one of the children he saw in the village?
(a) He says he is glad she has friends.
(b) He says he thought he had seen her.
(c) He could not believe he did not recognize his own daughter.
(d) He says he understands why she did not run to him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the lieutenant eager to hunt down the priest?

2. What does Father José fear if he says a prayer at the graveside?

3. What is the story about that a mother tells her children?

4. How does Greene set up the scene to show the despair of Father José?

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

(see the answer key)

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