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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the lieutenant see on his walk through the town?
(a) He sees many new shops and a lot of business.
(b) He sees old women making the sign of the cross.
(c) He sees Mr. Trench walking as though he had been drinking.
(d) He sees all the old symbols of the Church he has helped destroy.

2. What weakness does the priest have causes him more difficulty?
(a) He is vain about his appearance.
(b) He is a kleptomaniac.
(c) He is an alcoholic.
(d) He is addicted to sex.

3. Why is the lieutenant eager to hunt down the priest?
(a) He sees it as a chance for a promotion.
(b) He has an intense hatred of priests and the church.
(c) He thinks hunting a man is better than hunting deer.
(d) He wants the Police Chief's job.

4. What is Father José's final answer to the bereaved family?
(a) He tells them they are stupid to believe in God.
(b) He says no but slips them a prayer written on paper.
(c) He asks why they want to pray to a God who took their child.
(d) He says he is a coward and tells the family to leave him alone.

5. What did one former priest do about which the lieutenant likes to think?
(a) He refused to exit a church that the lieutenant had set on fire.
(b) He ran into a swamp and was eaten by crocodiles.
(c) One priest conformed to the Governor's law, renounced his faith and married his housekeeper.
(d) He committed suicide rather than be killed by the police.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although there is no love between him and the woman, how does the priest feel about Brigetta, his daughter?

2. For what is the American wanted?

3. What is Greene's contrast between the two priests in the story?

4. What does Mr. Trench's guest say about the town?

5. What question does the priest ask the woman?

(see the answer key)

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