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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 say he can do even though he himself is bad?
(a) He can help people when a family member dies.
(b) He can listen to confessions and help people feel better.
(c) He can teach children how to respect authority.
(d) He can still put the body and blood of Christ into the poor peoples' mouths.

2. What is the significance of the scene with Mrs. Fellows lying ill in a hotel bed?
(a) Her sickness represents the ills of society.
(b) She has run away from her husband, trying to return to England.
(c) Coral, her daughter, is not there and it is clear that she is dead.
(d) It is symbolic of the pending death of the priest.

3. In spite of the Yankee's protests, what does the priest do?
(a) He gives the Yankee last rites.
(b) He pours wine in the Yankee's wounds.
(c) He sits quietly holding the Yankee's hand.
(d) He says a prayer for the Yankee's soul.

4. What does the priest take it to mean when the Indian woman says, Americano?
(a) That the American fugitive killed the boy.
(b) That the boy is an American.
(c) That this wouldn't happen in America.
(d) That her husband is in America.

5. What does the priest do as he exits the hut.
(a) He thanks the lieutenant for allowing him to see the Yankee.
(b) He falls to his knees and starts begging for his life.
(c) He attempts to steal a horse and make a run for it.
(d) He starts laughing and tells the police the mestizo has fooled them.

6. Why do the priest and the lieutenant re-enter the hut with the now dead Yankee?
(a) They must arrange for the Yankee's burial.
(b) The priest lures him in, hoping to get hold of the Yankee's gun.
(c) It starts to rain heavily.
(d) The lieutenant wants a firm identification of the Yankee.

7. With what knowledge does the priest continue on to the village.
(a) He knows he can finally repent but there is no one to absolve him.
(b) Now he is certain the police are waiting for him there.
(c) He knows that the Yankee is already dead.
(d) He is sure the Yankee is not the American murderer.

8. When the priest leaves the woman and her dead son in the cemetery, what does he find when he returns?
(a) The woman is gone and wolves are attacking the boy's body.
(b) The boy has revived and the woman is crying tears of joy.
(c) The woman is gone and the body is laid in front of a cross.
(d) The woman had dug a grave with her bare hands.

9. Where do the priest and the Indian woman go?
(a) They move into one of the vacant huts.
(b) They walk down to the river.
(c) They head for the cemetery in Carmen.
(d) They hike into the mountains.

10. Who does he see in his dream?
(a) Coral, the girl who tried to help him.
(b) His daughter mocking him.
(c) The grinning face of the mestizo.
(d) Angels coming down from heaven.

11. What is the Indian woman searching for in the maize?
(a) Some dried meat she has been saving.
(b) The jewelry she hid there.
(c) The body of her son.
(d) A Bible she hid there.

12. Why does the priest envy the people of the village?
(a) They are all rich.
(b) They can get absolution, but he cannot.
(c) They have large, happy families.
(d) They have never feared the police.

13. What does Mr. Lehr not like about the Catholic Church?
(a) The color of the church buildings.
(b) The amount of wine they use.
(c) The simplicity of the churches.
(d) All the rules.

14. What agitates the Yankee while the priest is speaking with him?
(a) He is agitated because he has a gun in his back.
(b) He is agitated because the priest will not take his gun or a knife.
(c) He is agitated because he does not trust the mestizo.
(d) He is agitated because he is not Catholic.

15. What does Mr. Fellows wonder when he hears that a priest was executed?
(a) If there will be a revolution.
(b) If he were the same man Coral tried to help.
(c) If they suspect he is also a priest.
(d) If they will get to leave the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the weather conditions in the mountains?

2. What does the priest find when he reaches the plantation?

3. How does the priest earn money?

4. Why does he believe that Coral is immune from harm if she helps him?

5. What happens after the priest tries in vain to confess?

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