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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the priest seek assistance in the city?
(a) He meets a beggar and offers to pay him for his help buying wine.
(b) He goes to an underground meeting of religious people.
(c) He looks for the sign of a fish on a house.
(d) He asks a grocer to give him some fruit.

2. How do the people respond to his reappearance in the village?
(a) They act suspiciously as though they might call the police.
(b) Only a few people gather at a distance and look at him, and no one comes to kiss his hand.
(c) They rush to greet him, crying because they thought he was dead.
(d) They turn their backs on him and pretend he is not there.

3. What is the priest's response when a man says it is better not to believe in God?
(a) He says the man is probably right, but he cannot change this late in life.
(b) He asks if they believed the Governor did not exist would they not be in prison?
(c) He says that God hears blasphemy whenever it is spoken.
(d) He says the man will change his mind just before he dies.

4. What is the priest able to do in this village?
(a) Hold mass, baptize, and hear confessions.
(b) Live in a hotel.
(c) Drink all the brandy he wants.
(d) Hide where the police cannot find him.

5. Who is the last priest on the run from the police?
(a) A monsignor disguised as a farmer.
(b) A man who calls himself Julian.
(c) A pious priest who is protected by the peons.
(d) An unnamed man who is far from a perfect holy man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mestizo tell the priest?

2. Who does the priest see as he approaches a small town?

3. What does the woman say she when she hears the priest say he has not repented of his sins and doesn't want to.

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

5. In spite of the fact that the priest ignored the mestizo, what does he do?

(see the answer key)

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