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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What strange thing does the lieutenant do before he sends the priest out of the jail?
(a) He gives the priest five pesos.
(b) He gives the priest a Bible.
(c) He asks the priest to say a prayer.
(d) He returns the priest's brandy.

2. What is Father José's final answer to the bereaved family?
(a) He tells them they are stupid to believe in God.
(b) He says no but slips them a prayer written on paper.
(c) He says he is a coward and tells the family to leave him alone.
(d) He asks why they want to pray to a God who took their child.

3. Why does the priest envy the people of the village?
(a) They have large, happy families.
(b) They are all rich.
(c) They can get absolution, but he cannot.
(d) They have never feared the police.

4. What is the condition of the priest as he heads home from the plantation?
(a) He has on new clothes so his family will not be ashamed.
(b) He is drunk and keeps falling off his mule.
(c) He has become determined to oppose thepolice.
(d) He has tried to change his appearance so he will not be easily recognized.

5. Against all advice, which way does the priest head after leaving the village?
(a) Straight for Concepcion.
(b) The priest heads south, away from the safety of the north, following the police.
(c) Toward Vera Cruz where he hopes to catch a ship.
(d) Back the way he came because he heard thepolice have come and gone.

Short Answer Questions

1. In spite of the fact that the priest ignored the mestizo, what does he do?

2. What does the mestizo tell the priest?

3. What is Greene's continued contrast of the two priests?

4. Although he believes the mestizo is laying a trap for him, what does the priest do?

5. Back at the plantation after the priest is gone, what is Coral doing?

(see the answer key)

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