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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 do the police suspect about the priest?
(a) They think he may have gone to the Yucatan.
(b) They think he is probably in Vera Cruz by now.
(c) They suspect he is in Mexico City.
(d) They believe he tried to escape to Vera Cruz but he did not catch the boat.

2. Why does the boy insist that the stranger go with him?
(a) His mother is sick.
(b) His horse is sick.
(c) His brother broke his arm.
(d) His sister is having a baby.

3. Back at the plantation after the priest is gone, what is Coral doing?
(a) Coral is having a school lesson with her mother.
(b) Coral is hiding things the priest left behind.
(c) Coral is cooking because her mother is sick.
(d) Coral is out looking for the fugitive American.

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

5. How does Greene introduce the lieutenant?
(a) He is sitting at his desk dealing with the prisoners when the Chief of Police enters the office.
(b) He is at the firing range, practicing his shooting.
(c) He is questioning the boy.
(d) He comes to Mr. Trench's house to ask about the stranger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes his escape doubly difficult?

2. What is the Police Chief's concern?

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

4. What is the situation as the novel opens?

5. What is happening to the priests in this Mexican state?

(see the answer key)

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