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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the priest wonder about the other prisoners?

3. Why does Mr. Fellows want to stay in Mexico?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the priest awaken the next morning?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a paper about the mestizo as a personification of Satan. Use examples of his physical description and his cunning ways to show how he, and not the lieutenant, is the representation of pure evil in the novel. Include the interaction between him and the priest to show how he was able to use the priest's deep seated faith to work against him.

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper on how early childhood influences one for the rest of one's life. Begin with the priest's recollection that his had been a happy childhood except that he had been afraid of too many things and hated poverty above all. The fear of poverty had motivated him to his vocation, but unlike Father José, he learned a higher motivation. Relate his experience with your own or that of someone you know.

Essay Topic 3

Governmental prohibition of anything never works. In the novel, the government is trying to prohibit religion to the point of completely stamping it out. In a parallel example, hard liquor and wine are prohibited as well. Write a paper on how Greene uses this to subtly suggest the prohibition of religion will fail as well.

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