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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What new plan does the lieutenant come up with for finding the priest?
(a) Taking hostages and killing them if the people do not turn over the priest.
(b) Putting up roadblocks all over the region.
(c) Bringing in extra troops from Mexico City.
(d) Burning down the villages where the people do not cooperate.

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

4. What does Mr. Trench notice about the environment in the town?
(a) The land is dusty and hot with buzzards flying overhead.
(b) It looks like a tropical garden.
(c) The jungle is encroaching on the village.
(d) It is cold and there are no birds.

5. Who does the priest see as he approaches a small town?
(a) He sees a man leading a cow.
(b) He sees a mestizo man on a hammock.
(c) He sees the lieutenant riding while his men walk.
(d) He sees a wanted poster with an old photo of him on it.

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

7. How does the man try to get out of going with the boy?
(a) The man tries to say no, telling the boy he has to catch a boat.
(b) He protests that he does not make house calls.
(c) He tells the boy to bring his horse to Mr. Trench's house.
(d) He fakes a fainting spell.

8. Why does the woman he meets in the village not recognize him at first?
(a) She tells the priest that he has lost a lot of weight.
(b) She tells the priest that he needs a haricut.
(c) She tells the priest he looks like a common man because of his clothes.
(d) She tells the priest that it has been so long since anyone there has seen him.

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

10. Where is Captain Fellows headed down river in a canoe?
(a) The banana plantation on which he lives and works.
(b) To the town for supplies.
(c) To look for the stranger he thinks is a doctor.
(d) To find the American and collect the reward.

11. What does the lieutenant see on his walk through the town?
(a) He sees old women making the sign of the cross.
(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 all the old symbols of the Church he has helped destroy.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Fellows learn about the policeman?

2. Why does the lieutenant like to think about the priest who is still living?

3. How do the people respond to his reappearance in the village?

4. Talking to the mestizo, what does the priest learn?

5. What surprises the lieutenant?

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