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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 makes the priest cry as he speaks his confession?
(a) His hopeless situation.
(b) His fear of pain.
(c) The thought of his daughter.
(d) His inability to get absolution.

2. What does the boy do as the lieutenant walks by?
(a) He grins and waves.
(b) He crinkles his nose and spits at the policeman.
(c) He draws the curtains so the lieutenant cannot see him crying.
(d) He asks if he can touch his gun again.

3. What makes the priest fear the lieutenant will recognize him from Carmen?
(a) The lieutenant keeps scratching his head.
(b) The lieutenant asks him a lot of questions.
(c) The lieutenant stares at him for a long time.
(d) He sees the old photo of himself on the lieutenant's wall.

4. What agitates the Yankee while the priest is speaking with him?
(a) He is agitated because the priest will not take his gun or a knife.
(b) He is agitated because he has a gun in his back.
(c) He is agitated because he is not Catholic.
(d) He is agitated because he does not trust the mestizo.

5. What option does the lieutenant offer to the priest?
(a) To get killed in an attempt to escape jail.
(b) To renounce his religion and stay alive in jail.
(c) To have a big last meal or a full bottle of brandy.
(d) To be executed in a group of other condemned men or by himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the priest reply when the lieutenant says he never thought the priest would return?

2. What does Mr. Trench see out of the window at the Police chief's office?

3. Why can he not say the act of contrition?

4. What does the priest mean when he says he won't be returning the way he came?

5. What surprises the lieutenant as they talk inside the hut?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the kindness of the lieutenant after telling the priest that he was found guilty at the trial and will be shot tomorrow.

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

3. Describe how the priest decides to stay and return to the Indian village.

4. How does the priest awaken the next morning?

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

6. What are the preparations for the priest to escape to Las Casas?

7. While Mr. Trench is in the Police Chief's office, what does he witness?

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

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

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

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