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

2. In trying to get away from the people chasing him, on whose door does the priest knock?
(a) The house of the alcalde.
(b) The door of a widow.
(c) The house of Father José.
(d) The house of the lieutenant.

3. What fleeting impulse comes over Father José?
(a) He is tempted to seek a divorce and return to the Church.
(b) He is tempted to run away and commit suicide.
(c) He is tempted to turn the villagers in for seeking a priest.
(d) He is tempted to say a quick prayer and starts to make the sign of the cross in the air.

4. What is the situation as the novel opens?
(a) Religion has been outlawed in a rural Mexican state and priests are considered traitors.
(b) Mexican people are revolting over the prohibition against religion.
(c) It is rumored that religion is about to be outlawed.
(d) Debates are held about the influence of religion.

5. 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 mestizo begins to cry, talking about his dead children.
(d) The priest then notices that the mestizo man is ill, and he begins to feel sorry for him.

6. How does the Chief of Police react when he sees the alcohol?
(a) The Chief's face lights up at the sight of the alcohol and he sits down to join the drinkers.
(b) He confiscates the alcohol and leaves.
(c) He becomes angry because there is a prohibition on alcohol.
(d) He knows the seller so he pretends not to see.

7. Back to the mother reading stories to her children, what does she tell them about the grown up Juan?
(a) He has grown up and become a school teacher.
(b) He has grown up and been ordained a priest.
(c) He has grown up and leaves for another country.
(d) He has grown up and now hates the Church.

8. For what is the church in town being used?
(a) It has been made into a hotel.
(b) It is used to stable horses.
(c) It is now the treasury building.
(d) It has been turned into a hospital.

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

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

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

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

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

14. When the lieutenant arrives, why does he not recognize the priest?
(a) He has forgotten what he looks like.
(b) He is in too big a hurry to pay attention to the priest.
(c) He has too many other things on his mind.
(d) He never looks at him.

15. In spite of the fact that the priest ignored the mestizo, what does he do?
(a) He shouts louder.
(b) He turns around and goes back to his hammock.
(c) The man begins to follow him and eventually catches up to him.
(d) He takes a boat across the river.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the seller of alcoholic beverages offer the priest?

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

4. Why does the boy insist that the stranger go with him?

5. What information does the priest get from the Chief of Police?

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