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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 often is the priest allowed to say mass in the village?
2. Although he believes the mestizo is laying a trap for him, what does the priest do?
3. What does the boy do as the lieutenant walks by?
4. What does Mr. Fellows wonder when he hears that a priest was executed?
5. What unusual thing does the priest do in prison?
Short Essay Questions
1. Notwithstanding the civility that had transpired between the lieutenant and the priest, how does the lieutenant behave at the execution?
2. Thinking everything is finished for him, what does the priest say to people inside the cell?
3. 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?
4. What are the preparations for the priest to escape to Las Casas?
5. What happens after the priest is left alone in his cell?
6. Leaving the plantation, what are conditions like as the priest looks for shelter?
7. Compare the benevolence of the Church with the plans the lieutenant has for the people.
8. Describe how the priest decides to stay and return to the Indian village.
9. Describe how the meeting between the lieutenant and the priest shows a different side of both men.
10. What unusual thing does the priest do when they are within sight of the Indian village?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
The novel presents conflict and resolution throughout to keep the reader's attention. Write a paper on how conflict involves close encounters with fear and resolution involves hope, however fleeting. Explain why this method is so successful at making the reading compelling.
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