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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 well does the priest sleep in the crowded cell?
(a) He does not sleep for thinking about his death.
(b) He cannot sleep at all because of the noise.
(c) He sleeps soundly from exhaustion.
(d) He leans against the wall and drifts in and out of sleep.

2. After walking for miles in a storm, where does the priest find shelter?
(a) In a hut filled with maize.
(b) In a cave.
(c) In an abandoned army tent.
(d) In a dilapidated barn.

3. With what knowledge does the priest continue on to the village.
(a) Now he is certain the police are waiting for him there.
(b) He knows that the Yankee is already dead.
(c) He is sure the Yankee is not the American murderer.
(d) He knows he can finally repent but there is no one to absolve him.

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

5. What is the Indian woman searching for in the maize?
(a) The jewelry she hid there.
(b) The body of her son.
(c) A Bible she hid there.
(d) Some dried meat she has been saving.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away is the Yankee when the priest sends the guide and mules back?

2. What option does the lieutenant offer to the priest?

3. In spite of the Yankee's protests, what does the priest do?

4. What happens to him instead of being killed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does the priest awaken the next morning?

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

10. 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?

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