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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Coral say she lost her faith in God?
(a) When she lost her virginity.
(b) When she was ten years old.
(c) When the Mexican boys started coming around.
(d) When her mother tried to commit suicide.

2. What do the police suspect about the priest?
(a) They think he may have gone to the Yucatan.
(b) They believe he tried to escape to Vera Cruz but he did not catch the boat.
(c) They think he is probably in Vera Cruz by now.
(d) They suspect he is in Mexico City.

3. What is the story about that a mother tells her children?
(a) About a boy named Juan, a very holy boy who grows up to be a martyr.
(b) About how Jesus was killed for His faith.
(c) About St. Stephen who was martyred for his faith.
(d) About the virgin of Guadalupe.

4. What is the boy looking for when he knocks on Mr. Trench's door?
(a) The post office.
(b) A handout.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A teacher.

5. What is the Police Chief's concern?
(a) He is a religious man and does not like the new laws.
(b) The Governor has been on his case because they suspect a priest is on the run in their state.
(c) The lieutenant is not serious about finding the runaway priest.
(d) The Governor is still waiting for the paperwork that should have already been finished.

6. When the mother rebukes her son for only being interested in the killing, how does the son reply?
(a) He says the lieutenant told him the Bible is not true.
(b) He says that he doesn't believe the holy book.
(c) He says killing people is more fun than listening to stories.
(d) He laughs and says he is sorry.

7. In the cantina, who is the man the priest bumps into?
(a) The mestizo.
(b) The lieutenant.
(c) The Chief of Police.
(d) A red shirt.

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

10. What is Greene's contrast between the two priests in the story?
(a) One is a whisky priest and the other is not.
(b) Both men are sinners and cannot be considered good priests, yet they choose very different paths.
(c) One refuses his responsibility but the other tries to run away from responsibility.
(d) The only difference is that one of them is married.

11. Where do the police take the man they do not recognize as being a priest?
(a) To the hotel.
(b) To the jail.
(c) Back to the cantina.
(d) To the Police Chief.

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

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

14. How does the boy's father explain to his son the need to tell the stories?
(a) He says the stories will teach the children how to read.
(b) He says that now that the Church is gone, the stories are all they have.
(c) He says the stories always have a happy ending.
(d) He says that the boy should humor his mother because she is sad.

15. What name do the people give to priests who smell of alcohol?
(a) Smelly sermonizer.
(b) Whisky priest.
(c) Pickled priest.
(d) Wine bibber.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question from the mestizo alarms the priest?

2. What did one former priest do about which the lieutenant likes to think?

3. Where is Captain Fellows' wife when he reaches his house?

4. When the lieutenant arrives, why does he not recognize the priest?

5. What does Captain Fellows tell the policeman that satisfies him?

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