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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. As they reach the town, what is the priest's request of the lieutenant?

2. What makes the priest fear the lieutenant will recognize him from Carmen?

3. What is it that makes the priest say the lieutenant is both right and wrong?

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

5. In the village, before seeing the Yankee, for what does the priest wish?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the priest awaken the next morning?

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

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

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

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

7. Even after the Yankee refuses to make a confession, what does the priest do?

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

9. 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?

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

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 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

In the novel, Mr. Trench and Captain Fellows are presented as a-religious. Write a paper on morality apart from religion. State your opinion on whether or not non-religious people actually are able to hold to high moral standards.

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