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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. What information dismays the priest?

2. Where is the priest planning to go after he leaves the village?

3. Where do the priest and the Indian woman go?

4. Although he believes the mestizo is laying a trap for him, what does the priest do?

5. What does the priest reply when the lieutenant says he never thought the priest would return?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the kindness of the lieutenant after telling the priest that he was found guilty at the trial and will be shot tomorrow.

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

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

10. Describe the conditions in the jail.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Interestingly, it is a pair of Lutherans who offer the greatest help to the priest. Write a paper on the importance of religious tolerance in the world. Include in your paper how religious intolerance creates multiple problems that work against peaceful co-existence.

Essay Topic 2

The mother is symbolic of nurturing mothers the world over. Write a paper about a mother's protectiveness of her children and the lengths she will go to in order to keep them safe, both physically and spiritually. In writing the paper, include the woman who was in jail for possessing religious literature. Assess what that signifies for the mother who has religious stories to read to her children.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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