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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Father José's final answer to the bereaved family?
(a) He says he is a coward and tells the family to leave him alone.
(b) He tells them they are stupid to believe in God.
(c) He says no but slips them a prayer written on paper.
(d) He asks why they want to pray to a God who took their child.

2. What does Captain Fellows tell the policeman that satisfies him?
(a) He hates the Church and would not harbor a priest.
(b) Nobody ever comes out that far from the town.
(c) He heard there was a priest in Carmen.
(d) He has not seen the priest, but he will report if he does.

3. How does the priest seek assistance in the city?
(a) He looks for the sign of a fish on a house.
(b) He goes to an underground meeting of religious people.
(c) He meets a beggar and offers to pay him for his help buying wine.
(d) He asks a grocer to give him some fruit.

4. What is the condition of the priest as he heads home from the plantation?
(a) He has on new clothes so his family will not be ashamed.
(b) He has tried to change his appearance so he will not be easily recognized.
(c) He has become determined to oppose thepolice.
(d) He is drunk and keeps falling off his mule.

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

6. 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 all the old symbols of the Church he has helped destroy.
(d) He sees many new shops and a lot of business.

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

8. What is going through the stranger's head as he walks with the boy?
(a) He thinks he just might settle down in this town.
(b) He knows now he will never escape and in his mind he is praying to be caught soon.
(c) He wonders if the boy's family has anything to drink.
(d) He thinks the whole area will start bringing their sick to him.

9. What question from the mestizo alarms the priest?
(a) He asks what his business is in Carmen.
(b) He asks if he is on the run from the police.
(c) He asks if he has any brandy.
(d) He asks if he is a priest.

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

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

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

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

14. Why does Coral want her father to speak to the policeman?
(a) She thinks he is an imposter.
(b) He won't tell her what he's looking for.
(c) He does not speak English.
(d) She does not like him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Trench notice about the environment in the town?

2. What makes his escape doubly difficult?

3. What is the deadline for catching the priest?

4. How does Greene set up the scene to show the despair of Father José?

5. Against all advice, which way does the priest head after leaving the village?

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