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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. Where is Captain Fellows headed down river in a canoe?
(a) To find the American and collect the reward.
(b) To the town for supplies.
(c) The banana plantation on which he lives and works.
(d) To look for the stranger he thinks is a doctor.

2. Back to the mother reading stories to her children, what does she tell them about the grown up Juan?
(a) He has grown up and been ordained a priest.
(b) He has grown up and become a school teacher.
(c) He has grown up and now hates the Church.
(d) He has grown up and leaves for another country.

3. What does Captain Fellows eventually realize that Coral has done?
(a) She has hidden the priest on their property.
(b) She has hidden her boyfriend on their property.
(c) She has painted religious symbols on the walls of the barn.
(d) She has been making whisky in the shed.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In trying to get away from the people chasing him, on whose door does the priest knock?

2. What is the priests reaction when Maria tells him Brigetta was one of the children he saw in the village?

3. What is going through the stranger's head as he walks with the boy?

4. How does Greene set up the scene to show the despair of Father José?

5. How does Mr. Trench feel when the man leaves with the boy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. Why has the priest come to the capital city where he sees the mestizo talking with the police?

10. 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?

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