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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the lieutenant eager to hunt down the priest?
(a) He wants the Police Chief's job.
(b) He has an intense hatred of priests and the church.
(c) He sees it as a chance for a promotion.
(d) He thinks hunting a man is better than hunting deer.

2. In the cantina, who is the man the priest bumps into?
(a) The lieutenant.
(b) A red shirt.
(c) The Chief of Police.
(d) The mestizo.

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

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

5. What is the boy looking for when he knocks on Mr. Trench's door?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A handout.
(c) The post office.
(d) A teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the mother rebukes her son for only being interested in the killing, how does the son reply?

2. What question does the priest ask the woman?

3. What does the mestizo tell the priest?

4. When the lieutenant meets up with some boys who are interested in his gun, what passes through his mind?

5. How does the Chief of Police react when he sees the alcohol?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene in the town as Mr. Trench walks through it.

2. The mother who reads religious stories to her children is important in the story. How does Greene use this family to punctuate the fact that the common people want the Church returned?

3. What is the pathetic scene that occurs just as he leaves the village.

4. What transpires in the police station the morning the stranger arrives in the town?

5. What happens when the priest accidentally bumps into a red shirt in the cantina?

6. What information does the Police chief have to impart to the lieutenant?

7. All that is left of the church is a priest who renounced his religion and the stranger, a whiskey priest. How does the woman's husband sum up their reality?

8. Just as the mass is concluding, what occurs in the village?

9. What is the conversation like inside Mr. Trench's house?

10. After the priest gets his bottle of wine, what happens to it?

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