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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the priest wake up after meeting the man with the gun?
(a) In jail.
(b) In the hospital.
(c) Inside the small church.
(d) In the home of the Lehrs, a brother and sister from Germany.

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

3. How does the priest earn money?
(a) Making wine for the village.
(b) Entertaining with stories on Friday nights.
(c) Charging for masses, baptisms, and hearing confessions.
(d) Teaching in the local school.

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

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

6. What is the priest's response when a man says it is better not to believe in God?
(a) He asks if they believed the Governor did not exist would they not be in prison?
(b) He says the man is probably right, but he cannot change this late in life.
(c) He says the man will change his mind just before he dies.
(d) He says that God hears blasphemy whenever it is spoken.

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

8. 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 listen to confessions and help people feel better.
(c) He can teach children how to respect authority.
(d) He can help people when a family member dies.

9. 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 because of him, the Church is dead.
(c) That they should not tell anyone he was once in their house.
(d) That he is now a martyr.

10. When the priest goes for his guide and his mules, who is there waiting for him?
(a) Mr. Trench
(b) The lieutenant.
(c) The Indian woman.
(d) The mestizo.

11. As they reach the town, what is the priest's request of the lieutenant?
(a) That the children be kept away from his execution.
(b) That he get Father José to hear his confession.
(c) That he will have a good lawyer.
(d) That his execution will be quick.

12. Where does the man with the gun take the priest?
(a) To the police station.
(b) To his house down in the valley.
(c) Back to Carmen.
(d) To a safe place where there is a church.

13. What happens to him instead of being killed?
(a) He is given a job to clean out the cells to pay for his fine.
(b) He is ordered to leave the town and never return.
(c) He is enlisted to help hunt down the priest.
(d) He is sent to the governor for interrogation.

14. In the village, before seeing the Yankee, for what does the priest wish?
(a) That the police would hurry up and show themselves.
(b) That his luck will hold out one more time.
(c) That he had another bottle of wine.
(d) That God would take him before the police have a chance.

15. What is the significance of the scene with Mrs. Fellows lying ill in a hotel bed?
(a) It is symbolic of the pending death of the priest.
(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) Her sickness represents the ills of society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Fellows wonder when he hears that a priest was executed?

2. What option does the lieutenant offer to the priest?

3. What is the result of the lieutenant's visit with Father José?

4. What are the weather conditions in the mountains?

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

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