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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does he believe that Coral is immune from harm if she helps him?
(a) Because she is a foreigner.
(b) Because she can get her father to do anything.
(c) Because she is smarter than the lieutenant.
(d) Because she is so young.

2. Where is Captain Fellows' wife when he reaches his house?
(a) Out with the chickens.
(b) Making dinner.
(c) Sick in bed.
(d) Doing the laundry.

3. What is going through the stranger's head as he walks with the boy?
(a) He wonders if the boy's family has anything to drink.
(b) He knows now he will never escape and in his mind he is praying to be caught soon.
(c) He thinks he just might settle down in this town.
(d) He thinks the whole area will start bringing their sick to him.

4. What does Father José fear if he says a prayer at the graveside?
(a) He will be mocked by the lieutenant for practicing a religion he renounced.
(b) His police protection will be taken away if he performs a religious act.
(c) The authroities will put him in jail for blasphemy.
(d) He will get in trouble, lose his pension or even be killed for practicing his religion, which he has renounced.

5. What does Captain Fellows learn about the policeman?
(a) That he is a lieutenant.
(b) That he comes from Oaxaca.
(c) That he is looking for land to buy.
(d) That he has a warrant for the captain's arrest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Coral tell her father she would not allow the lieutenant to search the place?

3. How does Greene set up the scene to show the despair of Father José?

4. What is the deadline for catching the priest?

5. When the priest leaves the woman and her dead son in the cemetery, what does he find when he returns?

(see the answer key)

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