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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 story about that a mother tells her children?
(a) About St. Stephen who was martyred for his faith.
(b) About a boy named Juan, a very holy boy who grows up to be a martyr.
(c) About how Jesus was killed for His faith.
(d) About the virgin of Guadalupe.

2. What is the priests reaction when Maria tells him Brigetta was one of the children he saw in the village?
(a) He says he is glad she has friends.
(b) He could not believe he did not recognize his own daughter.
(c) He says he understands why she did not run to him.
(d) He says he thought he had seen her.

3. When they stop at a small hut, why does the priest not sleep?
(a) The priest is very suspicious of the mestizo man and forces himself to stay awake.
(b) He keeps on listening for the soldier and the police.
(c) There are too many mosquitos and he cannot sleep.
(d) The mestizo snores loudly and keeps waking him up.

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) Both men are sinners and cannot be considered good priests, yet they choose very different paths.
(c) One is a whisky priest and the other is not.
(d) One refuses his responsibility but the other tries to run away from responsibility.

5. How does the priest seek assistance in the city?
(a) He goes to an underground meeting of religious people.
(b) He looks for the sign of a fish on a house.
(c) He asks a grocer to give him some fruit.
(d) He meets a beggar and offers to pay him for his help buying wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the lieutenant arrives, why does he not recognize the priest?

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

3. What is the secret sin of the running priest?

4. How does the priest rationalize his guilt over the murdered hostage?

5. What does the priest think would be the result of his leaving?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the general situation as the novel opens.

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

9. 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?

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

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