Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the police suspect about the priest?
2. How is the meeting between the priest and Brigetta?
3. When the lieutenant meets up with some boys who are interested in his gun, what passes through his mind?
4. Back at the plantation after the priest is gone, what is Coral doing?
5. Where is Captain Fellows headed down river in a canoe?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how Greene establishes the character of Father José.
2. Describe Captain Fellow's reaction to the charge against the priest.
3. What happens when the priest accidentally bumps into a red shirt in the cantina?
4. All that is left of the church is a priest who renounced his religion and the stranger, a whiskey priest. How does the woman's husband sum up their reality?
5. How do Mr. Trench and the priest meet?
6. Just as the mass is concluding, what occurs in the village?
7. After the priest on his mule crosses the river, what happens that is cause for alarm?
8. Describe the condition of Father José at that time.
9. What is the conversation like inside Mr. Trench's house?
10. What is ominous about the parting of the priest and the mestizo?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a paper about the mestizo as a personification of Satan. Use examples of his physical description and his cunning ways to show how he, and not the lieutenant, is the representation of pure evil in the novel. Include the interaction between him and the priest to show how he was able to use the priest's deep seated faith to work against him.
Essay Topic 2
Critique the novel. Imagining yourself as a book reviewer, write a critique of THE POWER AND THE GLORY discussing Graham Greene's style, vocabulary, symbolism, and ability to maintain the interest of the reader. Rate it from one to five stars where five stars is excellent. Explain why you would or would not recommend it to someone else to read.
Essay Topic 3
Coral was an idealistic young girl with a sense of immortality. Write a paper using her as an example about how idealistic young people tend to rush into danger. How does Greene make her a sympathetic character in the mind of the reader?
|
This section contains 997 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
