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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. How often is the priest allowed to say mass in the village?
(a) A couple of times.
(b) Once a week.
(c) Every day.
(d) Twice a week.

2. What does the priest say he can do even though he himself is bad?
(a) He can help people when a family member dies.
(b) He can still put the body and blood of Christ into the poor peoples' mouths.
(c) He can listen to confessions and help people feel better.
(d) He can teach children how to respect authority.

3. What is it like for the priest in the Mexican prison?
(a) It is dark and crowded with many different sounds.
(b) He notices there is no place to sit.
(c) He finds himself in a room filled with murderers.
(d) It is brightly lit but very crowded.

4. To what does the priest compare the disciplines of the church?
(a) The Ten Commandments.
(b) The constitution of a democracy.
(c) The secular laws of the land.
(d) Preparing troops for battle.

5. What does the priest mean when he says he won't be returning the way he came?
(a) He has a plan to go south instead of north.
(b) He is planning to kill the mestizo before they get to the village.
(c) He thinks the Yankee knows a way to escape.
(d) He is resigned to his death once he reaches the village.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the priest's response when a man says it is better not to believe in God?

3. What awakens the boy in the middle of the night?

4. What act of generosity does the priest perform on the way to the village?

5. Where is the priest planning to go after he leaves the village?

Short Essay Questions

1. What transpires inside the hut where the Yankee is dying?

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

3. How does the mestizo give himself away to the priest?

4. How does the priest awaken the next morning?

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

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

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

8. How does the priest make money for his trip to the border?

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

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

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