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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes the priest fear the lieutenant will recognize him from Carmen?
(a) The lieutenant asks him a lot of questions.
(b) He sees the old photo of himself on the lieutenant's wall.
(c) The lieutenant keeps scratching his head.
(d) The lieutenant stares at him for a long time.

2. How does the mestizo give himself away?
(a) He tells the priest that he will only have ten minutes with the Yankee.
(b) He tells how the police brought the wounded Yankee to the Indian village.
(c) The priest ask if they will let him see the Yankee and he says of course they will.
(d) He gets drunk on wine and starts talking about the police in the village.

3. What surprises the lieutenant as they talk inside the hut?
(a) That the priest has decided to be a martyr.
(b) That the priest offers him a large bribe to let him go.
(c) That the priest is a whiskey priest.
(d) That the priest has a daughter.

4. What act of generosity does the priest perform on the way to the village?
(a) He shares a drink of wine.
(b) He gives the mestizo his last few coins.
(c) He hears the mestizo's confession.
(d) He gives the mestizo his crucifix.

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. What does the lieutenant do after the priest falls dead?
(a) He walks up and shoots him again.
(b) He turns to see the boy watching him.
(c) He goes off and cries.
(d) He orders the body be taken to the Church for burial.

7. 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) Coral, her daughter, is not there and it is clear that she is dead.
(c) She has run away from her husband, trying to return to England.
(d) It is symbolic of the pending death of the priest.

8. What is the priest's reply when the lieutenant then says he will be a martyr?
(a) Martyrs are a peso a dozen, but people need live priests.
(b) What good is being a martyr when you have to die to be one?
(c) Without the Church, the people will not remember the martyrs.
(d) The priest says he cannot be a martyr, not after the life he has led.

9. In his dream, who is pouring the wine for the mass into his glass?
(a) Coral.
(b) The lieutenant.
(c) Mr. Trench.
(d) The mestizo.

10. What does the priest reply when the lieutenant says he never thought the priest would return?
(a) After a while everyone gets tired of running.
(b) I never thought I would, either.
(c) Even a coward has a sense of duty.
(d) What else could he do against the armed mestizo?

11. Why can he not say the act of contrition?
(a) He is confused and cannot recall the words.
(b) He is too terrified to think.
(c) He has long ago forgotten the words.
(d) He does not believe he has the right.

12. What does the priest attempt to do sitting on the floor of his cell?
(a) He attempts to plan an escape.
(b) He attempts to confess.
(c) He attempts to drink himself into oblivion.
(d) He attempts suicide.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Fellows want to stay in Mexico?

2. What does the priest say to the lieutenant as a parting word?

3. When the priest sends back the guide and the mules, why is the mestizo mockingly concerned.

4. What happens to him instead of being killed?

5. What is the priest's response when a man says it is better not to believe in God?

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