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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. In spite of the Yankee's protests, what does the priest do?
2. How well does the priest sleep in the crowded cell?
3. What does the woman say she when she hears the priest say he has not repented of his sins and doesn't want to.
4. What agitates the Yankee while the priest is speaking with him?
5. Why does the priest envy the people of the village?
Short Essay Questions
1. What seems to be different about the priest's arrest?
2. What feelings pass through the priest as he luxuriates in the Lehrs' kindness?
3. 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?
4. Going on, what refuge does the priest eventually find?
5. By the time they reach the outskirts of the city, what seems to be the relationship between the lieutenant and the priest?
6. What are the preparations for the priest to escape to Las Casas?
7. Why does the priest return to the banana plantation and what does he find when he arrives?
8. What is the irony of the priest's admission in the jail cell.
9. Thinking everything is finished for him, what does the priest say to people inside the cell?
10. Notwithstanding the civility that had transpired between the lieutenant and the priest, how does the lieutenant behave at the execution?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Governmental prohibition of anything never works. In the novel, the government is trying to prohibit religion to the point of completely stamping it out. In a parallel example, hard liquor and wine are prohibited as well. Write a paper on how Greene uses this to subtly suggest the prohibition of religion will fail as well.
Essay Topic 2
In the novel, Mr. Trench and Captain Fellows are presented as a-religious. Write a paper on morality apart from religion. State your opinion on whether or not non-religious people actually are able to hold to high moral standards.
Essay Topic 3
Describe the elements in THE POWER AND THE GLORY that are representative of the age old struggle between Christianity and Communism. Discuss how, with all its flaws, Christianity succeeds at being helpful to the poor where Communism inevitably fails. Use the argument the priest makes to the lieutenant about the inherent weakness of his communistic ideals.
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