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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. As the priest, the mestizo, and the guide head for the Yankee, what do they approach?
(a) An Indian hut village in the distance.
(b) Villagers armed with sticks and stones.
(c) A large chasm they have to cross.
(d) A group of policemen on horseback.

2. What does the priest mean when he says he won't be returning the way he came?
(a) He has a plan to go south instead of north.
(b) He thinks the Yankee knows a way to escape.
(c) He is planning to kill the mestizo before they get to the village.
(d) He is resigned to his death once he reaches the village.

3. What unusual thing does the priest do in prison?
(a) He begins to behave like the crazy man.
(b) He holds a mass in the prison.
(c) He starts offering loud prayers.
(d) He tells people there that he is a priest.

4. What is the priest able to do in this village?
(a) Drink all the brandy he wants.
(b) Hold mass, baptize, and hear confessions.
(c) Hide where the police cannot find him.
(d) Live in a hotel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As they reach the town, what is the priest's request of the lieutenant?

2. What does the priest admit in the prison?

3. What is the Indian woman searching for in the maize?

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

5. With what knowledge does the priest continue on to the village.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is going on between Mr. and Mrs. Fellows in the hotel room?

2. What transpires inside the hut where the Yankee is dying?

3. Even after the Yankee refuses to make a confession, what does the priest do?

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. Describe the conditions in the jail.

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

8. By the time they reach the outskirts of the city, what seems to be the relationship between the lieutenant and the priest?

9. What seems to be different about the priest's arrest?

10. What are the preparations for the priest to escape to Las Casas?

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