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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new information does the priest receive in the village?
(a) The police already took one hostage from Conceptión and murdered a man named Pedro Montez.
(b) That the village will be completely blocked off within three days.
(c) That the police will return the following morning to take another hostage.
(d) That the police have given up looking for him.

2. 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 says no but slips them a prayer written on paper.
(c) He tells them they are stupid to believe in God.
(d) He asks why they want to pray to a God who took their child.

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

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

5. Where do the police take the man they do not recognize as being a priest?
(a) To the hotel.
(b) To the jail.
(c) To the Police Chief.
(d) Back to the cantina.

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

7. 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 turn the villagers in for seeking a priest.
(c) He is tempted to run away and commit suicide.
(d) He is tempted to say a quick prayer and starts to make the sign of the cross in the air.

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

9. 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 curious about the strange man.
(d) He is happy for the brandy the man left behind.

10. Why does the Police Chief think it will be difficult to identify the priest?
(a) They have no photo of him at all.
(b) No one will tell them what he looks like.
(c) The only picture they have of him is very old.
(d) He will be heavily disguised.

11. How is the meeting between the priest and Brigetta?
(a) It is warm and tearful.
(b) It is meaningful but painful for them both.
(c) It is meaningless, the she sticks out her tongue and runs away.
(d) It is like an iceberg without emotion.

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

13. 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 refuses his responsibility but the other tries to run away from responsibility.
(c) One is a whisky priest and the other is not.
(d) The only difference is that one of them is married.

14. Why is the lieutenant eager to hunt down the priest?
(a) He thinks hunting a man is better than hunting deer.
(b) He wants the Police Chief's job.
(c) He sees it as a chance for a promotion.
(d) He has an intense hatred of priests and the church.

15. When Captain Fellows goes to the barn to find the priest, what does he say?
(a) He tells him he has no business here.
(b) He tells him he can stay as long as he likes.
(c) He asks what he had been doing with his daughter.
(d) He asks if he can get anything for the priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What appeal does the girl make to the priest as he is leaving the village?

2. For what is the church in town being used?

3. What question does the priest ask the woman?

4. In spite of the fact that the priest ignored the mestizo, what does he do?

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

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