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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 1 (through page 83).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the deadline for catching the priest?
(a) The priest must be caught this month.
(b) They must catch the priest in one week.
(c) He must be caught before the Governor arrives.
(d) They have until the end of the year to catch him.

2. What does Captain Fellows tell the policeman that satisfies him?
(a) Nobody ever comes out that far from the town.
(b) He has not seen the priest, but he will report if he does.
(c) He heard there was a priest in Carmen.
(d) He hates the Church and would not harbor a priest.

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

4. What is the story about that a mother tells her children?
(a) About a boy named Juan, a very holy boy who grows up to be a martyr.
(b) About St. Stephen who was martyred for his faith.
(c) About how Jesus was killed for His faith.
(d) About the virgin of Guadalupe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes his escape doubly difficult?

2. For what is the American wanted?

3. What fleeting impulse comes over Father José?

4. What does Coral find in the barn that makes her empathize with the Priest's pain?

5. How does the priest rationalize his guilt over the murdered hostage?

(see the answer key)

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