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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the priest compare the disciplines of the church?
(a) Preparing troops for battle.
(b) The secular laws of the land.
(c) The constitution of a democracy.
(d) The Ten Commandments.

2. What happens to him instead of being killed?
(a) He is enlisted to help hunt down the priest.
(b) He is given a job to clean out the cells to pay for his fine.
(c) He is ordered to leave the town and never return.
(d) He is sent to the governor for interrogation.

3. What agitates the Yankee while the priest is speaking with him?
(a) He is agitated because the priest will not take his gun or a knife.
(b) He is agitated because he does not trust the mestizo.
(c) He is agitated because he is not Catholic.
(d) He is agitated because he has a gun in his back.

4. Why do the priest and the lieutenant re-enter the hut with the now dead Yankee?
(a) They must arrange for the Yankee's burial.
(b) It starts to rain heavily.
(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.

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

6. Where is the priest planning to go after he leaves the village?
(a) Carmen.
(b) Las Casas.
(c) Mexico City.
(d) Concepcion.

7. After he finds a place by an old man, what does he hear?
(a) The old man blames the lieutenant for all his troubles.
(b) The man begins talking angrily about priests, blaming them for the misery in his life.
(c) The old man thinks his family had him arrested to get his money.
(d) The old man thinks gringos are responsible for all the problems in Mexico.

8. How does the priest awake the morning of his scheduled execution?
(a) With great hope because of his dream the night before.
(b) Confused, not knowing where he is.
(c) Thinking he is already dead and in heaven.
(d) With despair knowing this is his last day.

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

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

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

12. 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 is gone and wolves are attacking the boy's body.
(c) The woman had dug a grave with her bare hands.
(d) The woman is gone and the body is laid in front of a cross.

13. When the priest goes for his guide and his mules, who is there waiting for him?
(a) The mestizo.
(b) The lieutenant.
(c) The Indian woman.
(d) Mr. Trench

14. Why does the priest return to the banana plantation?
(a) He hopes to find the American fugitive.
(b) He only knows how to go there.
(c) He thinks it is safe because the lieutenant has already been there.
(d) He is looking for Coral who offered to help him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual thing does the priest do in prison?

2. What information dismays the priest?

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

4. What awakens the boy in the middle of the night?

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

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