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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 it that makes the priest say the lieutenant is both right and wrong?
(a) That the Church robs the poor for its own enrichment.
(b) That the Church is filled with hypocritical people.
(c) That priests are all evil.
(d) That the poor do not really understand the Church.

2. What does Mr. Fellows wonder when he hears that a priest was executed?
(a) If they will get to leave the country.
(b) If he were the same man Coral tried to help.
(c) If there will be a revolution.
(d) If they suspect he is also a priest.

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

4. What is the priest able to do in this village?
(a) Live in a hotel.
(b) Hide where the police cannot find him.
(c) Drink all the brandy he wants.
(d) Hold mass, baptize, and hear confessions.

5. Why does the priest return to the banana plantation?
(a) He hopes to find the American fugitive.
(b) He is looking for Coral who offered to help him.
(c) He only knows how to go there.
(d) He thinks it is safe because the lieutenant has already been there.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what knowledge does the priest continue on to the village.

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

3. What happens after the priest tries in vain to confess?

4. At first, what does the woman who speaks to the priest believe about him?

5. Why does he believe that Coral is immune from harm if she helps him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the conditions in the jail.

3. In spite of the lieutenant's assurances, Father José refuses to go to the jail to hear the priest's confession. What is the irony of that situation?

4. What happens after the priest is left alone in his cell?

5. By the time they reach the outskirts of the city, what seems to be the relationship between the lieutenant and the priest?

6. What is the implication of the visitor to the boy's house in the middle of the night?

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

8. Even after the Yankee refuses to make a confession, what does the priest do?

9. What is going on between Mr. and Mrs. Fellows in the hotel room?

10. What transpires between the priest and the mestizo inside the jail?

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