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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 does the boy react to the man at the door?
(a) He believes he is dreaming.
(b) He slams the door in the man's face.
(c) He learns he is a priest and falls to his knees and kisses his hand.
(d) He threatens to find his friend the lieutenant.

2. What happens after the priest tries in vain to confess?
(a) He drinks the rest of the brandy.
(b) He curses himself and God.
(c) He falls asleep and dreams.
(d) He tries to pray but cannt.

3. What does Mr. Trench see out of the window at the Police chief's office?
(a) The boys playing at performing an execution.
(b) The execution of the priest.
(c) A pile of bodies being set on fire.
(d) The priest being blindfolded.

4. What is the priest able to do in this village?
(a) Drink all the brandy he wants.
(b) Live in a hotel.
(c) Hide where the police cannot find him.
(d) Hold mass, baptize, and hear confessions.

5. In his dream, who is pouring the wine for the mass into his glass?
(a) Mr. Trench.
(b) The lieutenant.
(c) Coral.
(d) The mestizo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the priest and the lieutenant re-enter the hut with the now dead Yankee?

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

3. How does the priest earn money?

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

5. What information dismays the priest?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

5. 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?

6. Why does the priest return to the banana plantation and what does he find when he arrives?

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

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

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

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

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