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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did one former priest do about which the lieutenant likes to think?
(a) He committed suicide rather than be killed by the police.
(b) He refused to exit a church that the lieutenant had set on fire.
(c) He ran into a swamp and was eaten by crocodiles.
(d) One priest conformed to the Governor's law, renounced his faith and married his housekeeper.

2. How does Greene set up the scene to show the despair of Father José?
(a) Reading his Bible, he begins to weep.
(b) His nagging wife leaves him.
(c) He awakes from a dream in which he had been saying the mass.
(d) Walking in the cemetery, he comes upon a family burying a small child.

3. When Captain Fellows goes to the barn to find the priest, what does he say?
(a) He asks what he had been doing with his daughter.
(b) He asks if he can get anything for the priest.
(c) He tells him he can stay as long as he likes.
(d) He tells him he has no business here.

4. For what is the American wanted?
(a) Bank robbery and murder.
(b) Smuggling priests out of the country.
(c) Running guns across the border.
(d) Embezzlement.

5. How does Greene introduce the lieutenant?
(a) He is at the firing range, practicing his shooting.
(b) He is sitting at his desk dealing with the prisoners when the Chief of Police enters the office.
(c) He is questioning the boy.
(d) He comes to Mr. Trench's house to ask about the stranger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the lieutenant eager to hunt down the priest?

2. Why does the lieutenant like to think about the priest who is still living?

3. What does Mr. Trench notice about the environment in the town?

4. What does Captain Fellows eventually realize that Coral has done?

5. Where is Captain Fellows headed down river in a canoe?

(see the answer key)

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