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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 new information does the priest receive in the village?
(a) That the police have given up looking for him.
(b) The police already took one hostage from Conceptión and murdered a man named Pedro Montez.
(c) That the police will return the following morning to take another hostage.
(d) That the village will be completely blocked off within three days.

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 now hates the Church.
(b) He has grown up and been ordained a priest.
(c) He has grown up and become a school teacher.
(d) He has grown up and leaves for another country.

3. What weakness does the priest have causes him more difficulty?
(a) He is an alcoholic.
(b) He is vain about his appearance.
(c) He is addicted to sex.
(d) He is a kleptomaniac.

4. Talking to the mestizo, what does the priest learn?
(a) The police are not heading for Carmen but are going to a larger city.
(b) The police have not been that way as yet.
(c) The police have taken twenty more hostages.
(d) The police are recruiting local men to help search for the priest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the situation as the novel opens?

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

3. Where is Captain Fellows' wife when he reaches his house?

4. What does Father José fear if he says a prayer at the graveside?

5. What does the seller of alcoholic beverages offer the priest?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the characters of the Police Chief and the lieutenant as seen in the cantina.

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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