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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the weather conditions in the mountains?
(a) The wind is hurricane force.
(b) It is dry and hot.
(c) It is sunny and cool.
(d) There is freezing rain.

3. What is the priest's response when a man says it is better not to believe in God?
(a) He says the man is probably right, but he cannot change this late in life.
(b) He asks if they believed the Governor did not exist would they not be in prison?
(c) He says the man will change his mind just before he dies.
(d) He says that God hears blasphemy whenever it is spoken.

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

5. What information dismays the priest?
(a) The lieutenant is determined to have all the children see the execution.
(b) He will be crucified in the plaza of the capital.
(c) He will have to return to the capital to stand trial.
(d) He will suffer a prolonged and agonizing death.

6. How does the boy react to the man at the door?
(a) He threatens to find his friend the lieutenant.
(b) He learns he is a priest and falls to his knees and kisses his hand.
(c) He believes he is dreaming.
(d) He slams the door in the man's face.

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

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

9. How does the mestizo give himself away?
(a) The priest ask if they will let him see the Yankee and he says of course they will.
(b) He gets drunk on wine and starts talking about the police in the village.
(c) He tells the priest that he will only have ten minutes with the Yankee.
(d) He tells how the police brought the wounded Yankee to the Indian village.

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

11. What is it that the priest cannot think of?
(a) Where he left his Bible.
(b) Why he did not bless the mestizo.
(c) Just one soul he has saved.
(d) What his daughter looks like.

12. What does the lieutenant do after the priest falls dead?
(a) He turns to see the boy watching him.
(b) He goes off and cries.
(c) He orders the body be taken to the Church for burial.
(d) He walks up and shoots him again.

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

14. Why does the mother tell her daughter not to mention the way the priest smelled?
(a) That he may now be one of the saints.
(b) That she only imagined he smelled funny.
(c) That the priest only smelled of the communion wine.
(d) That he was smelly because he had no home in which to take a bath.

15. What does the priest admit in the prison?
(a) That he is a bad priest and a bad man.
(b) That the Church has always been wrong.
(c) That he cannot excape death.
(d) That Christianity makes people brave.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the priest planning to go after he leaves the village?

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

4. To what does the priest compare the disciplines of the church?

5. What is it like for the priest in the Mexican prison?

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