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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 1 (through page 83).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do they think the priest may have gone?
(a) Conceptión, the home of his parish, or Carmen where he was born.
(b) Across the border into Texas.
(c) Vera Cruz or Tampico.
(d) To Mexico City where he would be difficult to find.

2. Where is Captain Fellows' wife when he reaches his house?
(a) Out with the chickens.
(b) Doing the laundry.
(c) Making dinner.
(d) Sick in bed.

3. 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 Governor is still waiting for the paperwork that should have already been finished.
(d) The lieutenant is not serious about finding the runaway priest.

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

5. What new information does the priest receive in the village?
(a) The police already took one hostage from Conceptión and murdered a man named Pedro Montez.
(b) That the village will be completely blocked off within three days.
(c) That the police have given up looking for him.
(d) That the police will return the following morning to take another hostage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prompts Mr. Trench to invite the stranger to his house?

2. What does Mr. Trench notice about the environment in the town?

3. What does the lieutenant tell Captain Fellows he is doing?

4. Back at the plantation after the priest is gone, what is Coral doing?

5. What is the story about that a mother tells her children?

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