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

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

3. What is it that makes the priest say the lieutenant is both right and wrong?
(a) That the poor do not really understand the Church.
(b) That the Church robs the poor for its own enrichment.
(c) That priests are all evil.
(d) That the Church is filled with hypocritical people.

4. 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 the American fugitive killed the boy.
(d) That this wouldn't happen in America.

5. After walking for miles in a storm, where does the priest find shelter?
(a) In a dilapidated barn.
(b) In a cave.
(c) In a hut filled with maize.
(d) In an abandoned army tent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the priest wonder about the other prisoners?

3. What does the priest attempt to do sitting on the floor of his cell?

4. What is the symbolism Greene uses with the priest's card trick?

5. What is the priest able to do in this village?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after the priest is left alone in his cell?

2. What unusual thing does the priest do when they are within sight of the Indian village?

3. Describe the conditions in the jail.

4. While Mr. Trench is in the Police Chief's office, what does he witness?

5. What is the irony of the priest's admission in the jail cell.

6. Going on, what refuge does the priest eventually find?

7. Describe how the priest decides to stay and return to the Indian village.

8. Notwithstanding the civility that had transpired between the lieutenant and the priest, how does the lieutenant behave at the execution?

9. What transpires between the priest and the mestizo inside the jail?

10. Leaving the plantation, what are conditions like as the priest looks for shelter?

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