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

2. When the mother rebukes her son for only being interested in the killing, how does the son reply?
(a) He says killing people is more fun than listening to stories.
(b) He says that he doesn't believe the holy book.
(c) He laughs and says he is sorry.
(d) He says the lieutenant told him the Bible is not true.

3. What does Captain Fellows eventually realize that Coral has done?
(a) She has painted religious symbols on the walls of the barn.
(b) She has been making whisky in the shed.
(c) She has hidden the priest on their property.
(d) She has hidden her boyfriend on their property.

4. Talking to the mestizo, what does the priest learn?
(a) The police have not been that way as yet.
(b) The police are recruiting local men to help search for the priest.
(c) The police are not heading for Carmen but are going to a larger city.
(d) The police have taken twenty more hostages.

5. What does Coral find in the barn that makes her empathize with the Priest's pain?
(a) A broken wine bottle.
(b) Tear stains on the blanket she gave him to sleep on.
(c) A series of small crosses he drew on the wall.
(d) The small case he left behind.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the boy's father explain to his son the need to tell the stories?

2. What is going through the stranger's head as he walks with the boy?

3. What makes his escape doubly difficult?

4. Why does the boy insist that the stranger go with him?

5. For what is the church in town being used?

(see the answer key)

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