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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What have Mr. and Mrs. Fellows agreed not to do?
(a) Press charges against the police.
(b) Think about the future.
(c) Tell anyone they are leaving.
(d) Mention their daughter's name.

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

4. How far away is the Yankee when the priest sends the guide and mules back?
(a) Just down the hill.
(b) About one hour away.
(c) Just on the outskirts.
(d) A day's travel on foot.

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

6. 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 the body is laid in front of a cross.
(b) The woman is gone and wolves are attacking the boy's body.
(c) The woman had dug a grave with her bare hands.
(d) The boy has revived and the woman is crying tears of joy.

7. After he finds a place by an old man, what does he hear?
(a) The old man thinks gringos are responsible for all the problems in Mexico.
(b) The man begins talking angrily about priests, blaming them for the misery in his life.
(c) The old man blames the lieutenant for all his troubles.
(d) The old man thinks his family had him arrested to get his money.

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

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

10. What does the priest wonder about the other prisoners?
(a) If any of them will get shot.
(b) What they did to get put in jail.
(c) Which one will trun him in.
(d) If some of them carry disease.

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

12. How does Mr. Trench feel at learning the man being executed is the priest?
(a) Afraid that they might find the priest's Bible in his house.
(b) Like he is seeing a neighbor being killed.
(c) Lucky that he is not religious.
(d) Indifferent to anything that happens in Mexico.

13. 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.

14. After walking for miles in a storm, where does the priest find shelter?
(a) In a cave.
(b) In a dilapidated barn.
(c) In a hut filled with maize.
(d) In an abandoned army tent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does the lieutenant give the priest in jail?

2. What is it that makes the priest say the lieutenant is both right and wrong?

3. What does the boy do as the lieutenant walks by?

4. What unusual thing does the priest do in prison?

5. In his dream, who is pouring the wine for the mass into his glass?

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