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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What appeal does the girl make to the priest as he is leaving the village?
(a) She only knows he is her father and she wants him to stay.
(b) She wants him to give her something.
(c) She wants him never to return.
(d) She wants to tell him she loves him.

3. 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.

4. Where do they think the priest may have gone?
(a) Conceptión, the home of his parish, or Carmen where he was born.
(b) Vera Cruz or Tampico.
(c) Across the border into Texas.
(d) To Mexico City where he would be difficult to find.

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

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

7. 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 given twenty-four hours to leave the country.
(c) Priests are being sent to concentration camps.
(d) The priests are being sent to the mine quarries.

8. Where is the former priest who renounced his faith and married his housekeeper?
(a) Father José is teaching in the school.
(b) Father José is hiding in the jungle.
(c) Father José is working in the police station.
(d) Father José is sitting in his house reflecting on his poor life.

9. What did one former priest do about which the lieutenant likes to think?
(a) One priest conformed to the Governor's law, renounced his faith and married his housekeeper.
(b) He committed suicide rather than be killed by the police.
(c) He refused to exit a church that the lieutenant had set on fire.
(d) He ran into a swamp and was eaten by crocodiles.

10. What is the boy looking for when he knocks on Mr. Trench's door?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A teacher.
(c) The post office.
(d) A handout.

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

12. What does the lieutenant tell Captain Fellows he is doing?
(a) He is campaigning for governor.
(b) He is looking for a priest wanted for treason.
(c) He is looking for a good place to fish.
(d) He is taking a census.

13. What announcement is made as the priest and the beverage seller are having a glass of wine?
(a) The hotel owner announces that his rates have just gone up.
(b) The hotel owner says they cannot drink in his establishment.
(c) The hotel owner warns of an coming storm.
(d) The hotel owner enters and says that the Chief of Police is coming.

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

15. What question does the priest ask the woman?
(a) He asks how long he can stay there.
(b) Without looking at her he asks with embarrassment about Brigetta.
(c) He asks if the police have been there.
(d) He asks if she has any brandy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the priest rationalize his guilt over the murdered hostage?

2. What is the situation as the novel opens?

3. How many priests has the lieutenant already executed?

4. What new information does the priest receive in the village?

5. How does Captain Fellows refuse the priest's request for brandy?

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