The Power and the Glory Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 173 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Power and the Glory Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once in the village, why is the Yankee looking around?
(a) He is trying to find a good place to hide.
(b) He is looking for something to drink.
(c) He expects something to happen at any moment.
(d) He is in his death throes.

2. In spite of the Yankee's protests, what does the priest do?
(a) He pours wine in the Yankee's wounds.
(b) He gives the Yankee last rites.
(c) He says a prayer for the Yankee's soul.
(d) He sits quietly holding the Yankee's hand.

3. How is the priest treated in the village?
(a) Like any ordinary citizen.
(b) Like an outcast.
(c) Like a suspicious stranger.
(d) With respect, people kneeling and kissing his hand.

4. What does the priest find when he reaches the plantation?
(a) His mule has returned there, too.
(b) It has been abandoned.
(c) Only the girl is there.
(d) The police are there waiting for him.

5. What is the priest's response when a man says it is better not to believe in God?
(a) He says the man will change his mind just before he dies.
(b) He says that God hears blasphemy whenever it is spoken.
(c) He asks if they believed the Governor did not exist would they not be in prison?
(d) He says the man is probably right, but he cannot change this late in life.

6. Why does the priest say that the lieutenant's dream of helping the people is unrealistic?
(a) Because the poor people will become lazy and wait for handouts.
(b) Because not everyone who says they want to help the poor are good people.
(c) Because the poor people will always need the Church.
(d) Because the lieutenant will never have enough power to do it.

7. Why does the mother tell her daughter not to mention the way the priest smelled?
(a) That the priest only smelled of the communion wine.
(b) That she only imagined he smelled funny.
(c) That he may now be one of the saints.
(d) That he was smelly because he had no home in which to take a bath.

8. After he finds a place by an old man, what does he hear?
(a) The old man blames the lieutenant for all his troubles.
(b) The man begins talking angrily about priests, blaming them for the misery in his life.
(c) The old man thinks gringos are responsible for all the problems in Mexico.
(d) The old man thinks his family had him arrested to get his money.

9. What is it that the priest cannot think of?
(a) Where he left his Bible.
(b) Just one soul he has saved.
(c) Why he did not bless the mestizo.
(d) What his daughter looks like.

10. What does the mestizo want from the priest to do?
(a) To give the Mestizo money for not turning him in.
(b) To go to the dying Yankee and give last rites.
(c) To give the mestizo another mule.
(d) To return to Carmen.

11. Where do the priest and the Indian woman go?
(a) They walk down to the river.
(b) They head for the cemetery in Carmen.
(c) They move into one of the vacant huts.
(d) They hike into the mountains.

12. What are the weather conditions in the mountains?
(a) There is freezing rain.
(b) The wind is hurricane force.
(c) It is dry and hot.
(d) It is sunny and cool.

13. What happens after the priest tries in vain to confess?
(a) He curses himself and God.
(b) He falls asleep and dreams.
(c) He tries to pray but cannt.
(d) He drinks the rest of the brandy.

14. What makes the priest fear the lieutenant will recognize him from Carmen?
(a) The lieutenant stares at him for a long time.
(b) He sees the old photo of himself on the lieutenant's wall.
(c) The lieutenant asks him a lot of questions.
(d) The lieutenant keeps scratching his head.

15. What is the priest's reply when the lieutenant then says he will be a martyr?
(a) Without the Church, the people will not remember the martyrs.
(b) What good is being a martyr when you have to die to be one?
(c) Martyrs are a peso a dozen, but people need live priests.
(d) The priest says he cannot be a martyr, not after the life he has led.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the priest envy the people of the village?

2. What does Mr. Trench see out of the window at the Police chief's office?

3. How does the priest earn money?

4. Who does he see in his dream?

5. Why does the priest return to the banana plantation?

(see the answer keys)

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