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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. What unusual thing does the priest do in prison?
(a) He begins to behave like the crazy man.
(b) He tells people there that he is a priest.
(c) He starts offering loud prayers.
(d) He holds a mass in the prison.

2. What is the situation as the novel opens?
(a) Mexican people are revolting over the prohibition against religion.
(b) Religion has been outlawed in a rural Mexican state and priests are considered traitors.
(c) It is rumored that religion is about to be outlawed.
(d) Debates are held about the influence of religion.

3. Why is the lieutenant eager to hunt down the priest?
(a) He wants the Police Chief's job.
(b) He thinks hunting a man is better than hunting deer.
(c) He sees it as a chance for a promotion.
(d) He has an intense hatred of priests and the church.

4. What does the mestizo want from the priest to do?
(a) To return to Carmen.
(b) To give the mestizo another mule.
(c) To go to the dying Yankee and give last rites.
(d) To give the Mestizo money for not turning him in.

5. In the cantina, who is the man the priest bumps into?
(a) The Chief of Police.
(b) The lieutenant.
(c) A red shirt.
(d) The mestizo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Fellows tell the policeman that satisfies him?

2. Although there is no love between him and the woman, how does the priest feel about Brigetta, his daughter?

3. Later, in another village, what does an old man request of the priest?

4. What does the lieutenant see on his walk through the town?

5. Where do the priest and the Indian woman go?

(see the answer key)

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