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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mestizo tell the priest?
(a) That he wants to get to know him better.
(b) That he needs a guide to help him get to Carmen.
(c) That he is going to Carmen, too, and suggests that they go together.
(d) That he wants the priest to help him catch the American.

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

3. What question from the mestizo alarms the priest?
(a) He asks if he is on the run from the police.
(b) He asks if he is a priest.
(c) He asks if he has any brandy.
(d) He asks what his business is in Carmen.

4. What does the lieutenant tell Captain Fellows he is doing?
(a) He is looking for a good place to fish.
(b) He is taking a census.
(c) He is campaigning for governor.
(d) He is looking for a priest wanted for treason.

5. What does the seller of alcoholic beverages offer the priest?
(a) He offers him some rum from Cuba.
(b) He offers him tequila and whisky.
(c) The man offers him one bottle of wine plus a bottle of brandy.
(d) He offers him a case of red wine.

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

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

8. What is the condition of the priest as he heads home from the plantation?
(a) He is drunk and keeps falling off his mule.
(b) He has tried to change his appearance so he will not be easily recognized.
(c) He has on new clothes so his family will not be ashamed.
(d) He has become determined to oppose thepolice.

9. Why does the boy insist that the stranger go with him?
(a) His horse is sick.
(b) His brother broke his arm.
(c) His mother is sick.
(d) His sister is having a baby.

10. What did one former priest do about which the lieutenant likes to think?
(a) He ran into a swamp and was eaten by crocodiles.
(b) He refused to exit a church that the lieutenant had set on fire.
(c) He committed suicide rather than be killed by the police.
(d) One priest conformed to the Governor's law, renounced his faith and married his housekeeper.

11. Although there is no love between him and the woman, how does the priest feel about Brigetta, his daughter?
(a) He feels a love and responsibility.
(b) He feels that he will one day be able to send her away.
(c) He feels that she is the visible reminder of his sin.
(d) He feels it would be better for them to remain strangers.

12. How does Greene set up the scene to show the despair of Father José?
(a) He awakes from a dream in which he had been saying the mass.
(b) Walking in the cemetery, he comes upon a family burying a small child.
(c) His nagging wife leaves him.
(d) Reading his Bible, he begins to weep.

13. What does Captain Fellows eventually realize that Coral has done?
(a) She has painted religious symbols on the walls of the barn.
(b) She has hidden the priest on their property.
(c) She has hidden her boyfriend on their property.
(d) She has been making whisky in the shed.

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

15. After he realizes he cannot stay in the village, what promise does the priest make to the people?
(a) That he will give himself up rather than have another hostage taken.
(b) That he will return when it is safe for him to do so.
(c) That he will leave right after they give him a good meal.
(d) The priest says he will sleep for a few hours, wake early to hear confession and say mass and then leave before sunrise.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is the church in town being used?

2. When the mother rebukes her son for only being interested in the killing, how does the son reply?

3. What does the stranger leave behind at Mr. Trench's house?

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

5. What is the story about that a mother tells her children?

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