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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the priest wake up after meeting the man with the gun?

2. What agitates the Yankee while the priest is speaking with him?

3. Where does the man with the gun take the priest?

4. What does the priest hear from outside the hut where he is with the dying Yankee?

5. Although he believes the mestizo is laying a trap for him, what does the priest do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the priest awaken the next morning?

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

4. Compare the benevolence of the Church with the plans the lieutenant has for the people.

5. How does the priest make money for his trip to the border?

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

7. Why does the Indian woman follow the priest as he leaves the next day?

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

9. In spite of the lieutenant's assurances, Father José refuses to go to the jail to hear the priest's confession. What is the irony of that situation?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Greene contrasts the appearance of the Indian burial ground with the tidiness of the mass. The priest sees the burial ground as a shortcut to the dark and magical heart of faith. Write a paper giving your opinion on his meaning there. Include your idea on the necessity of religious trappings for people to be religious.

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper on the value of human life as contrasted by the priest's concern for people and the indiscriminate murder of hostages by the lieutenant. Compare the lieutenant's attitude about the value of lives who disagreed with him to the world situation today where genocide is daily in the headlines.

Essay Topic 3

In meeting his daughter, Brigetta, the priest is aware of an immense load of responsibility not distinguishable from love. Write a paper on how you feel that love makes one obligated to the person loved. Use examples of parents and young children and older children with aged parents. Relate the idea to your sense of obligation to someone you love.

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