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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prompts Mr. Trench to invite the stranger to his house?
(a) The stranger looks like a priest.
(b) The stranger has a long wait for his ship.
(c) The stranger says he has a British newspaper.
(d) The stranger mentions he has some brandy.

2. Why is the lieutenant eager to hunt down the priest?
(a) He wants the Police Chief's job.
(b) He has an intense hatred of priests and the church.
(c) He sees it as a chance for a promotion.
(d) He thinks hunting a man is better than hunting deer.

3. What is happening to the priests in this Mexican state?
(a) The priests are given twenty-four hours to leave the country.
(b) The priests are being sent to the mine quarries.
(c) Priests are being sent to concentration camps.
(d) The priests that have not escaped have been hunted down and killed.

4. What is the situation as the novel opens?
(a) Religion has been outlawed in a rural Mexican state and priests are considered traitors.
(b) Mexican people are revolting over the prohibition against religion.
(c) It is rumored that religion is about to be outlawed.
(d) Debates are held about the influence of religion.

5. Where do they think the priest may have gone?
(a) Vera Cruz or Tampico.
(b) Conceptión, the home of his parish, or Carmen where he was born.
(c) Across the border into Texas.
(d) To Mexico City where he would be difficult to find.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new plan does the lieutenant come up with for finding the priest?

2. How does Captain Fellows refuse the priest's request for brandy?

3. What does the lieutenant tell Captain Fellows he is doing?

4. Why does Coral want her father to speak to the policeman?

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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