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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Trench's guest say about the town?
(a) The man says this place was very nice when they still had God.
(b) He says that he has never been there before.
(c) He says the church was once very beautiful.
(d) He says it is too hot and dusty.

2. Why does Coral tell her father she would not allow the lieutenant to search the place?
(a) She tells him she had forgotten to hide the last batch of whisky.
(b) She tells him that she did not trust the lieutenant.
(c) She tells him she wanted to make the lieutenant angry.
(d) She tells him they had no right to do it.

3. What is the deadline for catching the priest?
(a) The priest must be caught this month.
(b) He must be caught before the Governor arrives.
(c) They must catch the priest in one week.
(d) They have until the end of the year to catch him.

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

5. What does Father José reply when the priest begs him to help him?
(a) Father José refuses and tells him to go away.
(b) Father José pretends he does not understand.
(c) Father José agrees, seeing this a chance to redeem himself.
(d) Father José agrees but the police arrive at that moment.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Coral find in the barn that makes her empathize with the Priest's pain?
(a) The small case he left behind.
(b) A broken wine bottle.
(c) Tear stains on the blanket she gave him to sleep on.
(d) A series of small crosses he drew on the wall.

11. What is Greene's continued contrast of the two priests?
(a) One has compassion and the other one has only fear.
(b) They are both afraid of death, but the priest still tries to act as a priest while Father José does not.
(c) One obeys the law and the other one does not.
(d) One has a house and the other one does not.

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

13. How does the priest rationalize his guilt over the murdered hostage?
(a) He drinks himself into oblivion.
(b) He tells himself that the man who was killed probably had angered God.
(c) He decides that the sin is on the part of the police because he has done nothing wrong.
(d) He recalls that the Church has taught him it is every man's first duty to save his own soul.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In trying to get away from the people chasing him, on whose door does the priest knock?

2. In the cantina, who is the man the priest bumps into?

3. What is Greene's contrast between the two priests in the story?

4. Why is the lieutenant eager to hunt down the priest?

5. What is the lieutenant's ambition?

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