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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often is the priest allowed to say mass in the village?
(a) Every day.
(b) A couple of times.
(c) Once a week.
(d) Twice a week.

2. What option does the lieutenant offer to the priest?
(a) To renounce his religion and stay alive in jail.
(b) To have a big last meal or a full bottle of brandy.
(c) To get killed in an attempt to escape jail.
(d) To be executed in a group of other condemned men or by himself.

3. Why does the priest say that the lieutenant's dream of helping the people is unrealistic?
(a) Because the lieutenant will never have enough power to do it.
(b) Because the poor people will become lazy and wait for handouts.
(c) Because not everyone who says they want to help the poor are good people.
(d) Because the poor people will always need the Church.

4. What is it that makes the priest say the lieutenant is both right and wrong?
(a) That the Church is filled with hypocritical people.
(b) That the Church robs the poor for its own enrichment.
(c) That the poor do not really understand the Church.
(d) That priests are all evil.

5. Once in the village, why is the Yankee looking around?
(a) He is looking for something to drink.
(b) He expects something to happen at any moment.
(c) He is in his death throes.
(d) He is trying to find a good place to hide.

6. To what does the priest compare the disciplines of the church?
(a) The secular laws of the land.
(b) The constitution of a democracy.
(c) Preparing troops for battle.
(d) The Ten Commandments.

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

8. What happens after the priest tries in vain to confess?
(a) He tries to pray but cannt.
(b) He curses himself and God.
(c) He falls asleep and dreams.
(d) He drinks the rest of the brandy.

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

10. What does the priest hear from outside the hut where he is with the dying Yankee?
(a) The mestizo demanding his money.
(b) The clamor of horses riding up.
(c) The Indian woman screaming at the police for killing her son.
(d) The lieutenant's voice asking if he is finished.

11. How does the priest awake the morning of his scheduled execution?
(a) Thinking he is already dead and in heaven.
(b) Confused, not knowing where he is.
(c) With despair knowing this is his last day.
(d) With great hope because of his dream the night before.

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

13. What does the priest admit in the prison?
(a) That he is a bad priest and a bad man.
(b) That Christianity makes people brave.
(c) That he cannot excape death.
(d) That the Church has always been wrong.

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

15. Back in the home where the mother is reading to her children, what does she say about the priest?
(a) That he is now a martyr.
(b) That because of him, the Church is dead.
(c) That they should not tell anyone he was once in their house.
(d) That he is not the same man who once visited them when she was ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have Mr. and Mrs. Fellows agreed not to do?

2. What makes the priest cry as he speaks his confession?

3. At first, what does the woman who speaks to the priest believe about him?

4. Why does the priest return to the banana plantation?

5. In the village, before seeing the Yankee, for what does the priest wish?

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