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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do they put the old photo of the priest?
(a) The lieutenant folds it and puts it in his pocket.
(b) In an old filing cabinet.
(c) In the newspaper office to have posters made.
(d) On the wall next to one of an American fugitive.

2. What is the lieutenant's ambition?
(a) He wants to establish his own religion with him as it head.
(b) He wants to turn Mexico into a socialist state with him as the President.
(c) He hopes to wipe out all memories of the Church so the children will have no knowledge of it.
(d) He wants to send young boys to the seminary so that they can reform the church.

3. 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.

4. What question from the mestizo alarms the priest?
(a) He asks if he has any brandy.
(b) He asks if he is on the run from the police.
(c) He asks if he is a priest.
(d) He asks what his business is in Carmen.

5. After he realizes he cannot stay in the village, what promise does the priest make to the people?
(a) That he will give himself up rather than have another hostage taken.
(b) That he will return when it is safe for him to do so.
(c) That he will leave right after they give him a good meal.
(d) The priest says he will sleep for a few hours, wake early to hear confession and say mass and then leave before sunrise.

6. What prompts Mr. Trench to invite the stranger to his house?
(a) The stranger mentions he has some brandy.
(b) The stranger has a long wait for his ship.
(c) The stranger looks like a priest.
(d) The stranger says he has a British newspaper.

7. Where do they think the priest may have gone?
(a) Vera Cruz or Tampico.
(b) To Mexico City where he would be difficult to find.
(c) Across the border into Texas.
(d) Conceptión, the home of his parish, or Carmen where he was born.

8. What announcement is made as the priest and the beverage seller are having a glass of wine?
(a) The hotel owner announces that his rates have just gone up.
(b) The hotel owner enters and says that the Chief of Police is coming.
(c) The hotel owner says they cannot drink in his establishment.
(d) The hotel owner warns of an coming storm.

9. How many priests has the lieutenant already executed?
(a) He has never gotten close enough to a priest to kill one.
(b) He has shot one priest and wants to get another one soon.
(c) He has killed twenty priests and only this one remains.
(d) He has shot five but several escaped including the bishop, who is safely in Mexico City.

10. How does the mestizo attempt to get the priest to admit that he is a priest?
(a) He quotes scripture to see if the priest will respond.
(b) He condemns the Church for all its inadequacies.
(c) He says he is a good Christian and asks the priest to say a prayer.
(d) He tells the priest about another priest he helped to excape.

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

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

13. Talking to the mestizo, what does the priest learn?
(a) The police are recruiting local men to help search for the priest.
(b) The police have taken twenty more hostages.
(c) The police have not been that way as yet.
(d) The police are not heading for Carmen but are going to a larger city.

14. How do the people respond to his reappearance in the village?
(a) Only a few people gather at a distance and look at him, and no one comes to kiss his hand.
(b) They rush to greet him, crying because they thought he was dead.
(c) They turn their backs on him and pretend he is not there.
(d) They act suspiciously as though they might call the police.

15. When the mother rebukes her son for only being interested in the killing, how does the son reply?
(a) He says killing people is more fun than listening to stories.
(b) He says the lieutenant told him the Bible is not true.
(c) He laughs and says he is sorry.
(d) He says that he doesn't believe the holy book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Fellows learn about the policeman?

2. What fleeting impulse comes over Father José?

3. What does the priest hear as he crosses the river on his mule?

4. What does the mestizo tell the priest?

5. Back to the mother reading stories to her children, what does she tell them about the grown up Juan?

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