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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. 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 that now that the Church is gone, the stories are all they have.
(c) He says that the boy should humor his mother because she is sad.
(d) He says the stories always have a happy ending.

2. What new plan does the lieutenant come up with for finding the priest?
(a) Putting up roadblocks all over the region.
(b) Bringing in extra troops from Mexico City.
(c) Burning down the villages where the people do not cooperate.
(d) Taking hostages and killing them if the people do not turn over the priest.

3. What makes his escape doubly difficult?
(a) He does not know how to ride a horse.
(b) There is a price on his head for anyone who turns him in.
(c) His photograph is being circulated widely.
(d) He is lame.

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

5. What is the deadline for catching the priest?
(a) He must be caught before the Governor arrives.
(b) They must catch the priest in one week.
(c) The priest must be caught this month.
(d) They have until the end of the year to catch him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fleeting impulse comes over Father José?

2. What is the situation as the novel opens?

3. When the lieutenant meets up with some boys who are interested in his gun, what passes through his mind?

4. How does Greene introduce the lieutenant?

5. What is the lieutenant's ambition?

(see the answer key)

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