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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 does the priest awake the morning of his scheduled execution?

2. What does Mr. Trench see out of the window at the Police chief's office?

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

4. How does the priest get something to eat?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the priest decides to stay and return to the Indian village.

2. How does the priest awaken the next morning?

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

4. Leaving the plantation, what are conditions like as the priest looks for shelter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are several layers to the character of the lieutenant. Much of his inner motivation is left up to the imagination of the reader. One thing is made clear, his resentment goes back to his childhood. Write a paper in which you surmise what it was that happened to him as a child to make him so resentful of the Church as an adult.

Essay Topic 3

In the novel, the stories the mother reads to her children are about a young boy named Juan who grows up to become a priest and later a saint. The story runs in serial form throughout the novel. Write a paper about how this story parallels the life of the priest and ultimately changes the boy's attitude toward the Church.

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