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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the priest now begin to wonder?
(a) If the police have left the village.
(b) If the Yankee will kill him in exchange for his freedom.
(c) If the police will shoot him from a distance.
(d) If the mestizo will be the one to shoot him.

2. What does the priest attempt to do sitting on the floor of his cell?
(a) He attempts to plan an escape.
(b) He attempts to confess.
(c) He attempts suicide.
(d) He attempts to drink himself into oblivion.

3. What is the symbolism Greene uses with the priest's card trick?
(a) That the priest will be able to get away by trickery.
(b) To the lieutenant it symbolizes the tricks of the Church.
(c) To the lieutenant is symbolizes how the priest was able to hide for so long.
(d) That life is like a game of cards.

4. Where does the man with the gun take the priest?
(a) Back to Carmen.
(b) To his house down in the valley.
(c) To the police station.
(d) To a safe place where there is a church.

5. Although he believes the mestizo is laying a trap for him, what does the priest do?
(a) He assures Mr. Lehr that he will be all right.
(b) He turns and heads for the Yankee.
(c) He holds a gun on the mestizo but goes with him.
(d) He gives the mestizo all his money.

6. Who does he see in his dream?
(a) His daughter mocking him.
(b) Coral, the girl who tried to help him.
(c) The grinning face of the mestizo.
(d) Angels coming down from heaven.

7. What does the woman say she when she hears the priest say he has not repented of his sins and doesn't want to.
(a) That he is speaking out of fear and a martyr is never afraid.
(b) She will light a candle for him when she gets out of jail.
(c) She will write the bisdhop as soon as she gets out of jail.
(d) That he is just saying that to spare the other prisoners.

8. Why do the priest and the lieutenant re-enter the hut with the now dead Yankee?
(a) It starts to rain heavily.
(b) They must arrange for the Yankee's burial.
(c) The priest lures him in, hoping to get hold of the Yankee's gun.
(d) The lieutenant wants a firm identification of the Yankee.

9. Where do the priest and the Indian woman go?
(a) They walk down to the river.
(b) They hike into the mountains.
(c) They move into one of the vacant huts.
(d) They head for the cemetery in Carmen.

10. What option does the lieutenant offer to the priest?
(a) To renounce his religion and stay alive in jail.
(b) To have a big last meal or a full bottle of brandy.
(c) To be executed in a group of other condemned men or by himself.
(d) To get killed in an attempt to escape jail.

11. Back in the home where the mother is reading to her children, what does she say about the priest?
(a) That they should not tell anyone he was once in their house.
(b) That he is now a martyr.
(c) That he is not the same man who once visited them when she was ill.
(d) That because of him, the Church is dead.

12. What is the priest able to do in this village?
(a) Hide where the police cannot find him.
(b) Drink all the brandy he wants.
(c) Live in a hotel.
(d) Hold mass, baptize, and hear confessions.

13. In his dream, who is pouring the wine for the mass into his glass?
(a) The lieutenant.
(b) The mestizo.
(c) Mr. Trench.
(d) Coral.

14. What unusual thing does the priest do in prison?
(a) He starts offering loud prayers.
(b) He begins to behave like the crazy man.
(c) He holds a mass in the prison.
(d) He tells people there that he is a priest.

15. What does the mestizo want from the priest to do?
(a) To give the Mestizo money for not turning him in.
(b) To go to the dying Yankee and give last rites.
(c) To give the mestizo another mule.
(d) To return to Carmen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the priest do as he exits the hut.

2. With what knowledge does the priest continue on to the village.

3. How does the boy react to the man at the door?

4. Why does the priest say that the lieutenant's dream of helping the people is unrealistic?

5. At first, what does the woman who speaks to the priest believe about him?

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