1. How many priests has the lieutenant already executed?
(a) He has shot five but several escaped including the bishop, who is safely in Mexico City.
(b) He has shot one priest and wants to get another one soon.
(c) He has killed twenty priests and only this one remains.
(d) He has never gotten close enough to a priest to kill one.

2. How does the boy's father explain to his son the need to tell the stories?
(a) He says that now that the Church is gone, the stories are all they have.
(b) He says the stories will teach the children how to read.
(c) He says that the boy should humor his mother because she is sad.
(d) He says the stories always have a happy ending.

3. What is Greene's continued contrast of the two priests?
(a) One has a house and the other one does not.
(b) One obeys the law and the other one does not.
(c) They are both afraid of death, but the priest still tries to act as a priest while Father José does not.
(d) One has compassion and the other one has only fear.

4. How does the priest seek assistance in the city?
(a) He looks for the sign of a fish on a house.
(b) He asks a grocer to give him some fruit.
(c) He goes to an underground meeting of religious people.
(d) He meets a beggar and offers to pay him for his help buying wine.

5. In trying to get away from the people chasing him, on whose door does the priest knock?
(a) The house of the alcalde.
(b) The door of a widow.
(c) The house of Father José.
(d) The house of the lieutenant.