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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Greene set up the scene to show the despair of Father José?
(a) Reading his Bible, he begins to weep.
(b) Walking in the cemetery, he comes upon a family burying a small child.
(c) His nagging wife leaves him.
(d) He awakes from a dream in which he had been saying the mass.

2. How is the meeting between the priest and Brigetta?
(a) It is like an iceberg without emotion.
(b) It is meaningful but painful for them both.
(c) It is warm and tearful.
(d) It is meaningless, the she sticks out her tongue and runs away.

3. When the lieutenant meets up with some boys who are interested in his gun, what passes through his mind?
(a) For their sakes, he will start a massacre.
(b) The boys should be in school.
(c) These boys know that the gun is more powerful than the Bible.
(d) The boys will one day be policemen and soldiers.

4. What did one former priest do about which the lieutenant likes to think?
(a) He ran into a swamp and was eaten by crocodiles.
(b) He committed suicide rather than be killed by the police.
(c) One priest conformed to the Governor's law, renounced his faith and married his housekeeper.
(d) He refused to exit a church that the lieutenant had set on fire.

5. What does the lieutenant tell Captain Fellows he is doing?
(a) He is looking for a good place to fish.
(b) He is taking a census.
(c) He is campaigning for governor.
(d) He is looking for a priest wanted for treason.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the priest see as he approaches a small town?

2. What does Captain Fellows learn about the policeman?

3. What does Mr. Trench regret when he sees a man selling mineral water?

4. Against all advice, which way does the priest head after leaving the village?

5. What is the situation as the novel opens?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the conversation like inside Mr. Trench's house?

2. How do Mr. Trench and the priest meet?

3. What does Greene reveal about the priest in his thoughts on his way home?

4. Describe the condition of Father José at that time.

5. Back at the banana plantation, how does Greene emphasize the character of Coral Fellows?

6. How does Greene show more of the priest's humility and contrition?

7. Who comes knocking at the door and what does he want?

8. All that is left of the church is a priest who renounced his religion and the stranger, a whiskey priest. How does the woman's husband sum up their reality?

9. Why is he not welcome in his home town?

10. In the village of the old man in a hammock, describe the request that is made of the priest.

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