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

2. What is the priest's response when a man says it is better not to believe in God?
(a) He says that God hears blasphemy whenever it is spoken.
(b) He says the man is probably right, but he cannot change this late in life.
(c) He asks if they believed the Governor did not exist would they not be in prison?
(d) He says the man will change his mind just before he dies.

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

4. What is the priest's reply when the lieutenant then says he will be a martyr?
(a) What good is being a martyr when you have to die to be one?
(b) Without the Church, the people will not remember the martyrs.
(c) The priest says he cannot be a martyr, not after the life he has led.
(d) Martyrs are a peso a dozen, but people need live priests.

5. Why does the priest say that the lieutenant's dream of helping the people is unrealistic?
(a) Because not everyone who says they want to help the poor are good people.
(b) Because the lieutenant will never have enough power to do it.
(c) Because the poor people will always need the Church.
(d) Because the poor people will become lazy and wait for handouts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy do as the lieutenant walks by?

2. What does the mestizo want from the priest to do?

3. What does the priest attempt to do sitting on the floor of his cell?

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. As they reach the town, what is the priest's request of the lieutenant?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the priest awaken the next morning?

4. Describe the conditions in the jail.

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

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

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

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

9. What unusual thing does the priest do when they are within sight of the Indian village?

10. Notwithstanding the civility that had transpired between the lieutenant and the priest, how does the lieutenant behave at the execution?

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