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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. What does Captain Fellows learn about the policeman?
(a) That he has a warrant for the captain's arrest.
(b) That he is a lieutenant.
(c) That he is looking for land to buy.
(d) That he comes from Oaxaca.

2. Where is the former priest who renounced his faith and married his housekeeper?
(a) Father José is hiding in the jungle.
(b) Father José is sitting in his house reflecting on his poor life.
(c) Father José is working in the police station.
(d) Father José is teaching in the school.

3. How does the mestizo attempt to get the priest to admit that he is a priest?
(a) He condemns the Church for all its inadequacies.
(b) He tells the priest about another priest he helped to excape.
(c) He quotes scripture to see if the priest will respond.
(d) He says he is a good Christian and asks the priest to say a prayer.

4. Where does the man with the gun take the priest?
(a) To a safe place where there is a church.
(b) To the police station.
(c) To his house down in the valley.
(d) Back to Carmen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How well does the priest sleep in the crowded cell?

2. To what Biblical character does the priest compare the mestizo?

3. What is Greene's continued contrast of the two priests?

4. When the priest leaves the woman and her dead son in the cemetery, what does he find when he returns?

5. What new information does the priest receive in the village?

(see the answer key)

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