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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. For what is the American wanted?
(a) Running guns across the border.
(b) Embezzlement.
(c) Smuggling priests out of the country.
(d) Bank robbery and murder.

2. What appeal does the girl make to the priest as he is leaving the village?
(a) She wants him to give her something.
(b) She wants him never to return.
(c) She only knows he is her father and she wants him to stay.
(d) She wants to tell him she loves him.

3. What brings out a feeling of compassion in the priest for the mestizo?
(a) The man tells him about all the crimes hes has committed.
(b) The priest then notices that the mestizo man is ill, and he begins to feel sorry for him.
(c) The mestizo begins to cry, talking about his dead children.
(d) The man never complains about his great hunger.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Coral tell her father she would not allow the lieutenant to search the place?

2. What fleeting impulse comes over Father José?

3. What does the priest hear as he crosses the river on his mule?

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

5. What name do the people give to priests who smell of alcohol?

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