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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 is filled with hypocritical people.
(b) That the Church robs the poor for its own enrichment.
(c) That priests are all evil.
(d) That the poor do not really understand the Church.

2. In spite of the Yankee's protests, what does the priest do?
(a) He says a prayer for the Yankee's soul.
(b) He gives the Yankee last rites.
(c) He sits quietly holding the Yankee's hand.
(d) He pours wine in the Yankee's wounds.

3. What happens to him instead of being killed?
(a) He is ordered to leave the town and never return.
(b) He is given a job to clean out the cells to pay for his fine.
(c) He is sent to the governor for interrogation.
(d) He is enlisted to help hunt down the priest.

4. Why does the priest envy the people of the village?
(a) They have never feared the police.
(b) They are all rich.
(c) They can get absolution, but he cannot.
(d) They have large, happy families.

5. What does the priest reply when the lieutenant says he never thought the priest would return?
(a) I never thought I would, either.
(b) After a while everyone gets tired of running.
(c) What else could he do against the armed mestizo?
(d) Even a coward has a sense of duty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the priest cry as he speaks his confession?

2. What is the Indian woman searching for in the maize?

3. What makes the priest fear the lieutenant will recognize him from Carmen?

4. What does the priest say to the lieutenant as a parting word?

5. To what does the priest compare the disciplines of the church?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe how the meeting between the lieutenant and the priest shows a different side of both men.

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

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

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

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

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