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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to him instead of being killed?
(a) He is given a job to clean out the cells to pay for his fine.
(b) He is ordered to leave the town and never return.
(c) He is sent to the governor for interrogation.
(d) He is enlisted to help hunt down the priest.

2. How does the priest get something to eat?
(a) He kills a stray dog and cooks it.
(b) He fights off a dog to get a bone with some rotting meat on it.
(c) He stuffs himself with bananas.
(d) He finds some beans cooking on the stove.

3. What does the priest do as he exits the hut.
(a) He starts laughing and tells the police the mestizo has fooled them.
(b) He thanks the lieutenant for allowing him to see the Yankee.
(c) He attempts to steal a horse and make a run for it.
(d) He falls to his knees and starts begging for his life.

4. As the priest, the mestizo, and the guide head for the Yankee, what do they approach?
(a) An Indian hut village in the distance.
(b) A group of policemen on horseback.
(c) Villagers armed with sticks and stones.
(d) A large chasm they have to cross.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises the lieutenant as they talk inside the hut?

2. What is it that makes the priest say the lieutenant is both right and wrong?

3. After walking for miles in a storm, where does the priest find shelter?

4. What strange thing does the lieutenant do before he sends the priest out of the jail?

5. When they stop at a small hut, why does the priest not sleep?

(see the answer key)

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