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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the priest awake the morning of his scheduled execution?
(a) With great hope because of his dream the night before.
(b) Confused, not knowing where he is.
(c) With despair knowing this is his last day.
(d) Thinking he is already dead and in heaven.

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

3. What does the priest now begin to wonder?
(a) If the mestizo will be the one to shoot him.
(b) If the police will shoot him from a distance.
(c) If the police have left the village.
(d) If the Yankee will kill him in exchange for his freedom.

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

5. 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.

6. What option does the lieutenant offer to the priest?
(a) To have a big last meal or a full bottle of brandy.
(b) To get killed in an attempt to escape jail.
(c) To renounce his religion and stay alive in jail.
(d) To be executed in a group of other condemned men or by himself.

7. What agitates the Yankee while the priest is speaking with him?
(a) He is agitated because the priest will not take his gun or a knife.
(b) He is agitated because he is not Catholic.
(c) He is agitated because he does not trust the mestizo.
(d) He is agitated because he has a gun in his back.

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

9. Once in the village, why is the Yankee looking around?
(a) He is in his death throes.
(b) He is trying to find a good place to hide.
(c) He expects something to happen at any moment.
(d) He is looking for something to drink.

10. What does the priest mean when he says he won't be returning the way he came?
(a) He thinks the Yankee knows a way to escape.
(b) He is planning to kill the mestizo before they get to the village.
(c) He has a plan to go south instead of north.
(d) He is resigned to his death once he reaches the village.

11. As the priest, the mestizo, and the guide head for the Yankee, what do they approach?
(a) A group of policemen on horseback.
(b) An Indian hut village in the distance.
(c) A large chasm they have to cross.
(d) Villagers armed with sticks and stones.

12. What news does the lieutenant give the priest in jail?
(a) That he has been tried and found guilty. He tells the priest he will be killed tomorrow.
(b) The poor people are staging a demonstration to spare his life.
(c) A lawyer is coming from Mexico City to represent him.
(d) Father José has committed suicide.

13. At first, what does the woman who speaks to the priest believe about him?
(a) That he will get out of jail by denying his faith.
(b) That God will spare his life because he is the last one.
(c) That he is not really a priest.
(d) That he is a martyr.

14. Why do the priest and the lieutenant re-enter the hut with the now dead Yankee?
(a) The lieutenant wants a firm identification of the Yankee.
(b) It starts to rain heavily.
(c) They must arrange for the Yankee's burial.
(d) The priest lures him in, hoping to get hold of the Yankee's gun.

15. What are the weather conditions in the mountains?
(a) The wind is hurricane force.
(b) There is freezing rain.
(c) It is sunny and cool.
(d) It is dry and hot.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the priest treated in the village?

2. Back in the home where the mother is reading to her children, what does she say about the priest?

3. What information dismays the priest?

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

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

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