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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What brings out a feeling of compassion in the priest for the mestizo?
(a) The man never complains about his great hunger.
(b) The man tells him about all the crimes hes has committed.
(c) The priest then notices that the mestizo man is ill, and he begins to feel sorry for him.
(d) The mestizo begins to cry, talking about his dead children.

2. When Captain Fellows goes to the barn to find the priest, what does he say?
(a) He tells him he has no business here.
(b) He tells him he can stay as long as he likes.
(c) He asks if he can get anything for the priest.
(d) He asks what he had been doing with his daughter.

3. What does the priest think would be the result of his leaving?
(a) There would still be persecution of anyone who believes in the Church.
(b) He believes that if he was gone it would be as if God was gone from this whole state.
(c) The police would come and murder his daughter.
(d) Everything would return to normal and the Church would eventually return.

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

5. Back at the plantation after the priest is gone, what is Coral doing?
(a) Coral is out looking for the fugitive American.
(b) Coral is cooking because her mother is sick.
(c) Coral is having a school lesson with her mother.
(d) Coral is hiding things the priest left behind.

6. Where do they put the old photo of the priest?
(a) The lieutenant folds it and puts it in his pocket.
(b) In an old filing cabinet.
(c) On the wall next to one of an American fugitive.
(d) In the newspaper office to have posters made.

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

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

9. How many priests has the lieutenant already executed?
(a) He has killed twenty priests and only this one remains.
(b) He has never gotten close enough to a priest to kill one.
(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.

10. How does Captain Fellows refuse the priest's request for brandy?
(a) He says that they never keep alcohol on the place.
(b) He tells him no because he is breaking the law enough as it is.
(c) He tells him that brandy is too expensive to share.
(d) He tells him the police confiscated all his liquour.

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

12. What surprises the lieutenant?
(a) That the Police Chief is so calm.
(b) That the Police Chief entered his office without knocking.
(c) That the Governor even knows they are there.
(d) That the last priest was not shot weeks ago.

13. Against all advice, which way does the priest head after leaving the village?
(a) Back the way he came because he heard thepolice have come and gone.
(b) The priest heads south, away from the safety of the north, following the police.
(c) Straight for Concepcion.
(d) Toward Vera Cruz where he hopes to catch a ship.

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

15. Where is Captain Fellows' wife when he reaches his house?
(a) Sick in bed.
(b) Doing the laundry.
(c) Making dinner.
(d) Out with the chickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the man try to get out of going with the boy?

2. How does Greene introduce the lieutenant?

3. What do the police suspect about the priest?

4. What does Captain Fellows eventually realize that Coral has done?

5. Where do they think the priest may have gone?

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