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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the priest sends back the guide and the mules, why is the mestizo mockingly concerned.
(a) He thinks the priest should have waited about half an hour.
(b) He must behave as though he thinks the priest will be returning.
(c) He was counting on selling the mules.
(d) He had planned to make his own get away on a mule.

2. What information dismays the priest?
(a) The lieutenant is determined to have all the children see the execution.
(b) He will have to return to the capital to stand trial.
(c) He will be crucified in the plaza of the capital.
(d) He will suffer a prolonged and agonizing death.

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

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

5. Where is the priest planning to go after he leaves the village?
(a) Concepcion.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Carmen.
(d) Las Casas.

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

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

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

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

10. Why does the mother tell her daughter not to mention the way the priest smelled?
(a) That he may now be one of the saints.
(b) That the priest only smelled of the communion wine.
(c) That he was smelly because he had no home in which to take a bath.
(d) That she only imagined he smelled funny.

11. With what knowledge does the priest continue on to the village.
(a) Now he is certain the police are waiting for him there.
(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) He is sure the Yankee is not the American murderer.

12. What is the symbolism Greene uses with the priest's card trick?
(a) That the priest will be able to get away by trickery.
(b) That life is like a game of cards.
(c) To the lieutenant it symbolizes the tricks of the Church.
(d) To the lieutenant is symbolizes how the priest was able to hide for so long.

13. What does Mr. Trench see out of the window at the Police chief's office?
(a) The boys playing at performing an execution.
(b) The execution of the priest.
(c) The priest being blindfolded.
(d) A pile of bodies being set on fire.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strange thing does the lieutenant do before he sends the priest out of the jail?

2. What is it like for the priest in the Mexican prison?

3. What is it that the priest cannot think of?

4. On his way north, who does the priest meet?

5. Why does the priest envy the people of the village?

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