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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 does Captain Fellows tell the policeman that satisfies him?
(a) Nobody ever comes out that far from the town.
(b) He has not seen the priest, but he will report if he does.
(c) He heard there was a priest in Carmen.
(d) He hates the Church and would not harbor a priest.

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

3. What is Greene's contrast between the two priests in the story?
(a) One refuses his responsibility but the other tries to run away from responsibility.
(b) The only difference is that one of them is married.
(c) One is a whisky priest and the other is not.
(d) Both men are sinners and cannot be considered good priests, yet they choose very different paths.

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

5. What is the secret sin of the running priest?
(a) He is addicted to heroin.
(b) He embezzled money from the church coffers.
(c) He fathered a child with one of his parishioners.
(d) He murdered a policeman who was about to arrest him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Fellows learn about the policeman?

2. Where is Captain Fellows' wife when he reaches his house?

3. What is the deadline for catching the priest?

4. What does Coral find in the barn that makes her empathize with the Priest's pain?

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

(see the answer key)

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