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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. What is the situation as the novel opens?
(a) Religion has been outlawed in a rural Mexican state and priests are considered traitors.
(b) Debates are held about the influence of religion.
(c) It is rumored that religion is about to be outlawed.
(d) Mexican people are revolting over the prohibition against religion.

2. How does the boy's father explain to his son the need to tell the stories?
(a) He says that now that the Church is gone, the stories are all they have.
(b) He says that the boy should humor his mother because she is sad.
(c) He says the stories will teach the children how to read.
(d) He says the stories always have a happy ending.

3. What does the priest hear as he crosses the river on his mule?
(a) He hears the sounds of a large herd of cattle coming his way.
(b) He looks back and sees the mestizo man trying to get his attention but the priest ignores him.
(c) He hears thunder and thinks it will rain.
(d) He hears gun shots that probably mean hostages have been killed.

4. Back at the plantation after the priest is gone, what is Coral doing?
(a) Coral is hiding things the priest left behind.
(b) Coral is out looking for the fugitive American.
(c) Coral is having a school lesson with her mother.
(d) Coral is cooking because her mother is sick.

5. What does the lieutenant see on his walk through the town?
(a) He sees many new shops and a lot of business.
(b) He sees Mr. Trench walking as though he had been drinking.
(c) He sees old women making the sign of the cross.
(d) He sees all the old symbols of the Church he has helped destroy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new plan does the lieutenant come up with for finding the priest?

2. How does the mestizo attempt to get the priest to admit that he is a priest?

3. What name do the people give to priests who smell of alcohol?

4. How does the Chief of Police react when he sees the alcohol?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the priest accidentally bumps into a red shirt in the cantina?

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

3. What is ominous about the parting of the priest and the mestizo?

4. After the priest gets his bottle of wine, what happens to it?

5. What transpires in the police station the morning the stranger arrives in the town?

6. Who does the priest turn to for help and is refused?

7. What feeling does Greene evoke with the introduction of the mestizo?

8. Describe Captain Fellow's reaction to the charge against the priest.

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

10. As the lieutenant walks through the town, what indicates that he is the main antagonist in the novel?

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