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

2. What question does the priest ask the woman?
(a) He asks how long he can stay there.
(b) He asks if she has any brandy.
(c) Without looking at her he asks with embarrassment about Brigetta.
(d) He asks if the police have been there.

3. What is the situation as the novel opens?
(a) Mexican people are revolting over the prohibition against religion.
(b) Debates are held about the influence of religion.
(c) Religion has been outlawed in a rural Mexican state and priests are considered traitors.
(d) It is rumored that religion is about to be outlawed.

4. What does the priest take it to mean when the Indian woman says, Americano?
(a) That her husband is in America.
(b) That the boy is an American.
(c) That this wouldn't happen in America.
(d) That the American fugitive killed the boy.

5. 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 only knows he is her father and she wants him to stay.
(c) She wants him never to return.
(d) She wants to tell him she loves him.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is the American wanted?

2. What does Father José reply when the priest begs him to help him?

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

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

5. Why does the woman he meets in the village not recognize him at first?

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