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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 the Chief of Police react when he sees the alcohol?
(a) He knows the seller so he pretends not to see.
(b) He confiscates the alcohol and leaves.
(c) He becomes angry because there is a prohibition on alcohol.
(d) The Chief's face lights up at the sight of the alcohol and he sits down to join the drinkers.

2. What makes his escape doubly difficult?
(a) He is lame.
(b) He does not know how to ride a horse.
(c) His photograph is being circulated widely.
(d) There is a price on his head for anyone who turns him in.

3. What surprises the lieutenant?
(a) That the Police Chief entered his office without knocking.
(b) That the Governor even knows they are there.
(c) That the Police Chief is so calm.
(d) That the last priest was not shot weeks ago.

4. What do the police suspect about the priest?
(a) They suspect he is in Mexico City.
(b) They think he is probably in Vera Cruz by now.
(c) They think he may have gone to the Yucatan.
(d) They believe he tried to escape to Vera Cruz but he did not catch the boat.

5. Against all advice, which way does the priest head after leaving the village?
(a) Back the way he came because he heard thepolice have come and gone.
(b) Toward Vera Cruz where he hopes to catch a ship.
(c) Straight for Concepcion.
(d) The priest heads south, away from the safety of the north, following the police.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Father José's final answer to the bereaved family?

2. What did one former priest do about which the lieutenant likes to think?

3. What does Captain Fellows tell the policeman that satisfies him?

4. What does the lieutenant tell Captain Fellows he is doing?

5. Why does the lieutenant like to think about the priest who is still living?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the pathetic scene that occurs just as he leaves the village.

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. What information does the Police chief have to impart to the lieutenant?

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

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

9. Coral Fellows presents a reaction to the lieutenant. Describe the conversation with her father.

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

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