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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening to the priests in this Mexican state?
(a) The priests that have not escaped have been hunted down and killed.
(b) The priests are being sent to the mine quarries.
(c) Priests are being sent to concentration camps.
(d) The priests are given twenty-four hours to leave the country.

2. What makes his escape doubly difficult?
(a) His photograph is being circulated widely.
(b) There is a price on his head for anyone who turns him in.
(c) He does not know how to ride a horse.
(d) He is lame.

3. What is the priests reaction when Maria tells him Brigetta was one of the children he saw in the village?
(a) He says he thought he had seen her.
(b) He could not believe he did not recognize his own daughter.
(c) He says he is glad she has friends.
(d) He says he understands why she did not run to him.

4. What does the lieutenant see on his walk through the town?
(a) He sees all the old symbols of the Church he has helped destroy.
(b) He sees Mr. Trench walking as though he had been drinking.
(c) He sees many new shops and a lot of business.
(d) He sees old women making the sign of the cross.

5. How does Mr. Trench feel when the man leaves with the boy?
(a) He feels relieved that the stranger is gone.
(b) As the man leaves Mr. Trench is lonely.
(c) He is happy for the brandy the man left behind.
(d) He is curious about the strange man.

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

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

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

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

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

11. When the lieutenant meets up with some boys who are interested in his gun, what passes through his mind?
(a) The boys will one day be policemen and soldiers.
(b) For their sakes, he will start a massacre.
(c) The boys should be in school.
(d) These boys know that the gun is more powerful than the Bible.

12. Who is the last priest on the run from the police?
(a) A monsignor disguised as a farmer.
(b) A pious priest who is protected by the peons.
(c) An unnamed man who is far from a perfect holy man.
(d) A man who calls himself Julian.

13. Why does the lieutenant like to think about the priest who is still living?
(a) He is pleased most of all by this man, a living example to all of the weakness of faith.
(b) He is awaiting execution and the lieutenant will get to hang him.
(c) He serves as an example the lieutenant can use to tell the children.
(d) He has disgraced the Church and the people have all turned against him.

14. What weakness does the priest have causes him more difficulty?
(a) He is an alcoholic.
(b) He is vain about his appearance.
(c) He is a kleptomaniac.
(d) He is addicted to sex.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Coral want her father to speak to the policeman?

3. Although there is no love between him and the woman, how does the priest feel about Brigetta, his daughter?

4. How does the mestizo attempt to get the priest to admit that he is a priest?

5. What is the boy looking for when he knocks on Mr. Trench's door?

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