• “We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere” (page 12).—BF

• “‘A man like that,’ the lieutenant said, ‘does no real harm. A few men dead....’” (Page 23) Is anything the lieutenant says justifiable in this passage?—AR

• Page 24: Whose actions are worse, the priests who flirts with women or the policeman who kills people to find the priest?—SM

• Captain Fellows. page 32-33—JC

• Page 32-34: Captain Fellows’ relationship with his wife and daughter.—WF

• On page 33 is the following statement true? “She was very young—about thirteen—and at that age you are not afraid of many things, age and death, all the things which may turn up, snake bite and fever and rats and a bad smell.”—PW

• Padre Jose gave up his faith to escape death, and on page 49 refuses to act on his feelings to his original duty as a priest. What do you think of Padre Jose’s masking of his identity?—EA

• Would you hide or turn yourself in if you were in the priest’s position?—KH