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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. To what does the priest compare the disciplines of the church?

2. What happens to him instead of being killed?

3. What option does the lieutenant offer to the priest?

4. What information dismays the priest?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Notwithstanding the civility that had transpired between the lieutenant and the priest, how does the lieutenant behave at the execution?

4. Describe the conditions in the jail.

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

6. While Mr. Trench is in the Police Chief's office, what does he witness?

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

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

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

10. How does the priest awaken the next morning?

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 the value of human life as contrasted by the priest's concern for people and the indiscriminate murder of hostages by the lieutenant. Compare the lieutenant's attitude about the value of lives who disagreed with him to the world situation today where genocide is daily in the headlines.

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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