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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. What does the boy do as the lieutenant walks by?
(a) He crinkles his nose and spits at the policeman.
(b) He asks if he can touch his gun again.
(c) He grins and waves.
(d) He draws the curtains so the lieutenant cannot see him crying.

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

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

10. What does the mestizo want from the priest to do?
(a) To give the mestizo another mule.
(b) To return to Carmen.
(c) To give the Mestizo money for not turning him in.
(d) To go to the dying Yankee and give last rites.

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

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

13. What does the priest say to the lieutenant as a parting word?
(a) That he will burn in hell for attempting to stamp out the Church.
(b) That his blood will not be on the lieutenant's hands.
(c) That he is a good man and he will have nothing to be afraid of when he dies.
(d) That he will never be able to sleep peacefully again.

14. What is the result of the lieutenant's visit with Father José?
(a) Father José agrees if the lieutenant will guarantee his safety.
(b) Father José says the man they have is not a real priest.
(c) Father José curses and says he is no longer a priest.
(d) Father José is terrified and will not come to the jail.

15. What is the priest able to do in this village?
(a) Live in a hotel.
(b) Drink all the brandy he wants.
(c) Hold mass, baptize, and hear confessions.
(d) Hide where the police cannot find him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the priest hear from outside the hut where he is with the dying Yankee?

2. What does the woman say she when she hears the priest say he has not repented of his sins and doesn't want to.

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

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

5. How does the priest awake the morning of his scheduled execution?

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