1. How many priests has the lieutenant already executed?
(a) He has shot one priest and wants to get another one soon.
(b) He has killed twenty priests and only this one remains.
(c) He has shot five but several escaped including the bishop, who is safely in Mexico City.
(d) He has never gotten close enough to a priest to kill one.

2. What is the Police Chief's concern?
(a) The Governor has been on his case because they suspect a priest is on the run in their state.
(b) He is a religious man and does not like the new laws.
(c) The lieutenant is not serious about finding the runaway priest.
(d) The Governor is still waiting for the paperwork that should have already been finished.

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

4. What surprises the lieutenant?
(a) That the Governor even knows they are there.
(b) That the Police Chief is so calm.
(c) That the Police Chief entered his office without knocking.
(d) That the last priest was not shot weeks ago.

5. Why does the Police Chief think it will be difficult to identify the priest?
(a) The only picture they have of him is very old.
(b) He will be heavily disguised.
(c) They have no photo of him at all.
(d) No one will tell them what he looks like.