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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprises the lieutenant?
(a) That the Governor even knows they are there.
(b) That the Police Chief is so calm.
(c) That the Police Chief entered his office without knocking.
(d) That the last priest was not shot weeks ago.

2. 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 that he doesn't believe the holy book.
(c) He says the lieutenant told him the Bible is not true.
(d) He laughs and says he is sorry.

3. 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 leave right after they give him a good meal.
(c) The priest says he will sleep for a few hours, wake early to hear confession and say mass and then leave before sunrise.
(d) That he will return when it is safe for him to do so.

4. What does Mr. Trench notice about the environment in the town?
(a) It is cold and there are no birds.
(b) It looks like a tropical garden.
(c) The land is dusty and hot with buzzards flying overhead.
(d) The jungle is encroaching on the village.

5. For what is the church in town being used?
(a) It is used to stable horses.
(b) It has been made into a hotel.
(c) It has been turned into a hospital.
(d) It is now the treasury building.

6. What new plan does the lieutenant come up with for finding the priest?
(a) Taking hostages and killing them if the people do not turn over the priest.
(b) Burning down the villages where the people do not cooperate.
(c) Putting up roadblocks all over the region.
(d) Bringing in extra troops from Mexico City.

7. What appeal does the girl make to the priest as he is leaving the village?
(a) She wants him to give her something.
(b) She only knows he is her father and she wants him to stay.
(c) She wants to tell him she loves him.
(d) She wants him never to return.

8. What brings out a feeling of compassion in the priest for the mestizo?
(a) The man tells him about all the crimes hes has committed.
(b) The man never complains about his great hunger.
(c) The mestizo begins to cry, talking about his dead children.
(d) The priest then notices that the mestizo man is ill, and he begins to feel sorry for him.

9. What information does the priest get from the Chief of Police?
(a) He learns that more hostages have been shot.
(b) As the Chief gets drunk he begins to tell the men about the hunt for the priest.
(c) The Chief of Police gets drunk and tells how he hates the lieutenant.
(d) The priest learns that the lieutenant will arrive in the city next month.

10. How does the Chief of Police react when he sees the alcohol?
(a) He knows the seller so he pretends not to see.
(b) He confiscates the alcohol and leaves.
(c) The Chief's face lights up at the sight of the alcohol and he sits down to join the drinkers.
(d) He becomes angry because there is a prohibition on alcohol.

11. Why does the woman he meets in the village not recognize him at first?
(a) She tells the priest that it has been so long since anyone there has seen him.
(b) She tells the priest he looks like a common man because of his clothes.
(c) She tells the priest that he has lost a lot of weight.
(d) She tells the priest that he needs a haricut.

12. How does Mr. Trench feel when the man leaves with the boy?
(a) As the man leaves Mr. Trench is lonely.
(b) He is happy for the brandy the man left behind.
(c) He is curious about the strange man.
(d) He feels relieved that the stranger is gone.

13. What does Father José fear if he says a prayer at the graveside?
(a) He will be mocked by the lieutenant for practicing a religion he renounced.
(b) He will get in trouble, lose his pension or even be killed for practicing his religion, which he has renounced.
(c) The authroities will put him in jail for blasphemy.
(d) His police protection will be taken away if he performs a religious act.

14. What does Father José reply when the priest begs him to help him?
(a) Father José pretends he does not understand.
(b) Father José refuses and tells him to go away.
(c) Father José agrees, seeing this a chance to redeem himself.
(d) Father José agrees but the police arrive at that moment.

15. In trying to get away from the people chasing him, on whose door does the priest knock?
(a) The house of the alcalde.
(b) The house of Father José.
(c) The door of a widow.
(d) The house of the lieutenant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do they think the priest may have gone?

2. What fleeting impulse comes over Father José?

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

4. What is the lieutenant's ambition?

5. What does the priest hope to find in Carmen?

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