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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. What is the priest's response when a man says it is better not to believe in God?

2. What is the symbolism Greene uses with the priest's card trick?

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

4. How does Mr. Trench feel at learning the man being executed is the priest?

5. What does Mr. Fellows wonder when he hears that a priest was executed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Notwithstanding the civility that had transpired between the lieutenant and the priest, how does the lieutenant behave at the execution?

2. Thinking everything is finished for him, what does the priest say to people inside the cell?

3. What transpires inside the hut where the Yankee is dying?

4. Describe how the priest decides to stay and return to the Indian village.

5. What is the implication of the visitor to the boy's house in the middle of the night?

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

7. Why does the priest return to the banana plantation and what does he find when he arrives?

8. Describe the conditions in the jail.

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

10. Describe the kindness of the lieutenant after telling the priest that he was found guilty at the trial and will be shot tomorrow.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel presents conflict and resolution throughout to keep the reader's attention. Write a paper on how conflict involves close encounters with fear and resolution involves hope, however fleeting. Explain why this method is so successful at making the reading compelling.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

There are several layers to the character of the lieutenant. Much of his inner motivation is left up to the imagination of the reader. One thing is made clear, his resentment goes back to his childhood. Write a paper in which you surmise what it was that happened to him as a child to make him so resentful of the Church as an adult.

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