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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information does the priest get from the Chief of Police?
(a) He learns that more hostages have been shot.
(b) The Chief of Police gets drunk and tells how he hates the lieutenant.
(c) The priest learns that the lieutenant will arrive in the city next month.
(d) As the Chief gets drunk he begins to tell the men about the hunt for the priest.

2. After the brandy is taken, what does the priest do?
(a) He runs.
(b) He tells of seeing a priest near Carmen.
(c) He offers to get more brandy for the man.
(d) He begis acting like he is insane.

3. What does Mr. Trench notice about the environment in the town?
(a) The land is dusty and hot with buzzards flying overhead.
(b) It is cold and there are no birds.
(c) It looks like a tropical garden.
(d) The jungle is encroaching on the village.

4. Where do they think the priest may have gone?
(a) Across the border into Texas.
(b) Conceptión, the home of his parish, or Carmen where he was born.
(c) Vera Cruz or Tampico.
(d) To Mexico City where he would be difficult to find.

5. What is Father José's final answer to the bereaved family?
(a) He says he is a coward and tells the family to leave him alone.
(b) He tells them they are stupid to believe in God.
(c) He asks why they want to pray to a God who took their child.
(d) He says no but slips them a prayer written on paper.

6. What does Father José fear if he says a prayer at the graveside?
(a) His police protection will be taken away if he performs a religious act.
(b) The authroities will put him in jail for blasphemy.
(c) He will be mocked by the lieutenant for practicing a religion he renounced.
(d) He will get in trouble, lose his pension or even be killed for practicing his religion, which he has renounced.

7. When the lieutenant arrives, why does he not recognize the priest?
(a) He is in too big a hurry to pay attention to the priest.
(b) He never looks at him.
(c) He has forgotten what he looks like.
(d) He has too many other things on his mind.

8. Why does the Police Chief think it will be difficult to identify the priest?
(a) He will be heavily disguised.
(b) No one will tell them what he looks like.
(c) They have no photo of him at all.
(d) The only picture they have of him is very old.

9. Why is the lieutenant eager to hunt down the priest?
(a) He thinks hunting a man is better than hunting deer.
(b) He sees it as a chance for a promotion.
(c) He has an intense hatred of priests and the church.
(d) He wants the Police Chief's job.

10. What does the stranger leave behind at Mr. Trench's house?
(a) A straw hat.
(b) A novel.
(c) A Bible.
(d) A catalog.

11. Why does Coral want her father to speak to the policeman?
(a) She does not like him.
(b) He does not speak English.
(c) He won't tell her what he's looking for.
(d) She thinks he is an imposter.

12. What does the priest hope to find in Carmen?
(a) He needs to find old family members who will help him.
(b) He needs wine so he can say mass.
(c) He needs some of the clothes he left behind.
(d) He needs a replacement Bible for the one he left in Mr. Trench's house.

13. For what is the church in town being used?
(a) It has been made into a hotel.
(b) It is used to stable horses.
(c) It is now the treasury building.
(d) It has been turned into a hospital.

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

15. How many priests has the lieutenant already executed?
(a) He has never gotten close enough to a priest to kill one.
(b) He has killed twenty priests and only this one remains.
(c) He has shot five but several escaped including the bishop, who is safely in Mexico City.
(d) He has shot one priest and wants to get another one soon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Later, in another village, what does an old man request of the priest?

3. How does the priest seek assistance in the city?

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

5. What does Captain Fellows learn about the policeman?

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