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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What makes the priest cry as he speaks his confession?
(a) The thought of his daughter.
(b) His hopeless situation.
(c) His inability to get absolution.
(d) His fear of pain.

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

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

6. What surprises the lieutenant as they talk inside the hut?
(a) That the priest has a daughter.
(b) That the priest is a whiskey priest.
(c) That the priest has decided to be a martyr.
(d) That the priest offers him a large bribe to let him go.

7. What makes the priest fear the lieutenant will recognize him from Carmen?
(a) He sees the old photo of himself on the lieutenant's wall.
(b) The lieutenant keeps scratching his head.
(c) The lieutenant asks him a lot of questions.
(d) The lieutenant stares at him for a long time.

8. 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 she only imagined he smelled funny.
(c) That he was smelly because he had no home in which to take a bath.
(d) That the priest only smelled of the communion wine.

9. 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) Lucky that he is not religious.
(c) Like he is seeing a neighbor being killed.
(d) Indifferent to anything that happens in Mexico.

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

11. How often is the priest allowed to say mass in the village?
(a) A couple of times.
(b) Every day.
(c) Once a week.
(d) Twice a week.

12. What does the priest do as he exits the hut.
(a) He attempts to steal a horse and make a run for it.
(b) He falls to his knees and starts begging for his life.
(c) He thanks the lieutenant for allowing him to see the Yankee.
(d) He starts laughing and tells the police the mestizo has fooled them.

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

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

15. What does the priest find when he reaches the plantation?
(a) The police are there waiting for him.
(b) His mule has returned there, too.
(c) It has been abandoned.
(d) Only the girl is there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the priest attempt to do sitting on the floor of his cell?

2. How does the mestizo give himself away?

3. What agitates the Yankee while the priest is speaking with him?

4. As the priest, the mestizo, and the guide head for the Yankee, what do they approach?

5. What does the priest take it to mean when the Indian woman says, Americano?

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