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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does the lieutenant give the priest in jail?
(a) A lawyer is coming from Mexico City to represent him.
(b) The poor people are staging a demonstration to spare his life.
(c) That he has been tried and found guilty. He tells the priest he will be killed tomorrow.
(d) Father José has committed suicide.

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

3. What is the priest's reply when the lieutenant then says he will be a martyr?
(a) Martyrs are a peso a dozen, but people need live priests.
(b) The priest says he cannot be a martyr, not after the life he has led.
(c) Without the Church, the people will not remember the martyrs.
(d) What good is being a martyr when you have to die to be one?

4. What have Mr. and Mrs. Fellows agreed not to do?
(a) Think about the future.
(b) Mention their daughter's name.
(c) Tell anyone they are leaving.
(d) Press charges against the police.

5. When the priest leaves the woman and her dead son in the cemetery, what does he find when he returns?
(a) The boy has revived and the woman is crying tears of joy.
(b) The woman had dug a grave with her bare hands.
(c) The woman is gone and the body is laid in front of a cross.
(d) The woman is gone and wolves are attacking the boy's body.

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

7. Why does he believe that Coral is immune from harm if she helps him?
(a) Because she is a foreigner.
(b) Because she can get her father to do anything.
(c) Because she is so young.
(d) Because she is smarter than the lieutenant.

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

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

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

11. What is the result of the lieutenant's visit with Father José?
(a) Father José agrees if the lieutenant will guarantee his safety.
(b) Father José says the man they have is not a real priest.
(c) Father José is terrified and will not come to the jail.
(d) Father José curses and says he is no longer a priest.

12. How well does the priest sleep in the crowded cell?
(a) He does not sleep for thinking about his death.
(b) He cannot sleep at all because of the noise.
(c) He leans against the wall and drifts in and out of sleep.
(d) He sleeps soundly from exhaustion.

13. What does the priest hear from outside the hut where he is with the dying Yankee?
(a) The lieutenant's voice asking if he is finished.
(b) The Indian woman screaming at the police for killing her son.
(c) The clamor of horses riding up.
(d) The mestizo demanding his money.

14. What does the priest take it to mean when the Indian woman says, Americano?
(a) That her husband is in America.
(b) That the boy is an American.
(c) That this wouldn't happen in America.
(d) That the American fugitive killed the boy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the mother tell her daughter not to mention the way the priest smelled?

2. What does Mr. Lehr not like about the Catholic Church?

3. When the priest goes for his guide and his mules, who is there waiting for him?

4. What does the priest say to the lieutenant as a parting word?

5. What is it that the priest cannot think of?

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