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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. Why does the boy insist that the stranger go with him?
(a) His horse is sick.
(b) His brother broke his arm.
(c) His sister is having a baby.
(d) His mother is sick.

2. Why does the Police Chief think it will be difficult to identify the priest?
(a) They have no photo of him at all.
(b) The only picture they have of him is very old.
(c) He will be heavily disguised.
(d) No one will tell them what he looks like.

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

4. What is Greene's contrast between the two priests in the story?
(a) The only difference is that one of them is married.
(b) One refuses his responsibility but the other tries to run away from responsibility.
(c) One is a whisky priest and the other is not.
(d) Both men are sinners and cannot be considered good priests, yet they choose very different paths.

5. What is happening to the priests in this Mexican state?
(a) The priests that have not escaped have been hunted down and killed.
(b) Priests are being sent to concentration camps.
(c) The priests are being sent to the mine quarries.
(d) The priests are given twenty-four hours to leave the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the stranger leave behind at Mr. Trench's house?

2. What weakness does the priest have causes him more difficulty?

3. How does the man try to get out of going with the boy?

4. What does the priest hope to find in Carmen?

5. What is the condition of the priest as he heads home from the plantation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mr. Trench invite the man into his house?

2. Just as the mass is concluding, what occurs in the village?

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

4. The mother who reads religious stories to her children is important in the story. How does Greene use this family to punctuate the fact that the common people want the Church returned?

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

6. In chapter two, how does Greene establish a deep-seated religious faith on the part of common citizens?

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

8. How does Captain Fellows present ambivalent feelings about the priest?

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

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

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