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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 Indian woman searching for in the maize?
(a) Some dried meat she has been saving.
(b) The body of her son.
(c) The jewelry she hid there.
(d) A Bible she hid there.

2. After walking for miles in a storm, where does the priest find shelter?
(a) In an abandoned army tent.
(b) In a dilapidated barn.
(c) In a cave.
(d) In a hut filled with maize.

3. How does the priest earn money?
(a) Teaching in the local school.
(b) Making wine for the village.
(c) Charging for masses, baptisms, and hearing confessions.
(d) Entertaining with stories on Friday nights.

4. When the priest goes for his guide and his mules, who is there waiting for him?
(a) The Indian woman.
(b) Mr. Trench
(c) The mestizo.
(d) The lieutenant.

5. What does the priest now begin to wonder?
(a) If the mestizo will be the one to shoot him.
(b) If the police have left the village.
(c) If the Yankee will kill him in exchange for his freedom.
(d) If the police will shoot him from a distance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the priest get something to eat?

2. How does the priest awake the morning of his scheduled execution?

3. Why does the priest envy the people of the village?

4. What does the woman say she when she hears the priest say he has not repented of his sins and doesn't want to.

5. What does the lieutenant do after the priest falls dead?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare the benevolence of the Church with the plans the lieutenant has for the people.

2. What feelings pass through the priest as he luxuriates in the Lehrs' kindness?

3. Thinking everything is finished for him, what does the priest say to people inside the cell?

4. What is the irony of the priest's admission in the jail cell.

5. Leaving the plantation, what are conditions like as the priest looks for shelter?

6. Going on, what refuge does the priest eventually find?

7. How does the priest awaken the next morning?

8. Why does the priest return to the banana plantation and what does he find when he arrives?

9. Why does the Indian woman follow the priest as he leaves the next day?

10. What seems to be different about the priest's arrest?

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