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The Power and the Glory

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1. The Power and the Glory is a 1940 novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: ‘For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen.’ It was initially published in the United States under the title ____?

A:) The Labyrinthine Ways

B:) The Labin Ways

C:) The Glorious Ways

D:) The powerful ways

springline- Correct option: A:) The Labyrinthine Ways


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2. Greene's novel tells the story of a renegade Catholic 'whisky priest' (a term coined by Greene) living in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, a time when the Mexican government was attempting to suppress the Catholic Church. That suppression had resulted in the Cristero War in_____?

A:) 1926-1928

B:) 1926-1927

C:) 1927-1929

D:) 1928-1929

springline- Correct option: C:) 1927-1929


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3. In 2005, it was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the hundred best English-language novels since 1923. When the novel received the Hawthornden Prize British literary award ?

A:) 1931

B:) 1935

C:) 1940

D:) 1941

springline- Correct option: D:) 1941


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4. The main character is an unnamed 'whisky priest', who combines a great power for self-destruction with pitiful cravenness, an almost painful penitence, and a desperate quest for dignity. By the end, though, the priest ‘acquires a real holiness.’ The other principal character is a police lieutenant tasked with hunting down _____?

A:) Lieutenant

B:) Priest

C:) The Mestizo

D:) Padre Jose

springline- Correct option: B:) Priest


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5. Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of_____?

A:) historical

B:) philosophical

C:) thriller

D:) religious

springline- Correct option: C:) thriller


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6. Henry Graham Greene was shortlisted, in 1966 and 1967, for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. He was awarded the 1968 Shakespeare Prize .When he awarded the Jerusalem Prize ?

A:) 1978

B:) 1980

C:) 1981

D:) 1982

springline- Correct option: C:) 1981


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7. Greene converted to Catholicism in 1926 after meeting his future wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning. Later in life he took to calling himself a ‘Catholic agnostic’. He died in 1991, at age of_____?

A:) 76

B:) 80

C:) 81

D:) 86

springline- Correct option: D:) 86


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8. The story starts with the arrival of the main character in a small country town and then follows him on his trip through Tabasco, where he tries to minister to the people as best he can. In doing so, he is faced by a lot of problems, not least of which is that Tabasco is also prohibitionist, with the unspoken prime objective to hinder celebration of the Sacrifice of the Mass. The overall situation is this: Catholicism is outlawed in _______?

A:) America

B:) Mexico

C:) Sydney

D:) Australia

springline- Correct option: B:) Mexico


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9. The main character ; As for his daughter, he meets her, but is unable to feel repentant about what happened. Rather, he feels a deep love for the evil-looking and awkward little girl and decides to do everything in his power to save her from _______?

A:) damnation

B:) sin

C:) guilty

D:) salvation

springline- Correct option: A:) damnation


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10. During his journey the priest also encounters a mestizo who later reveals himself to be a Judas figure. The chief antagonist, however, is the lieutenant, who is morally irreproachable, yet cold and inhumane. While he is supposedly ‘living for the people’, he puts into practice a diabolic plan of taking hostages from villages and _______?

A:) murder them

B:) shooting them

C:) beating them

D:) stab them

springline- Correct option: B:) B:) shooting them


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11. Who has also had bad experiences with the church in his youth, and as a result there is a personal element in his search for the whisky priest and Who thinks that all members of the clergy are fundamentally evil, and believes that the church is corrupt, and does nothing but provide delusion to the people ?

A:) The Mestizo

B:) Coral Fellows

C:) The lieutenant

D:) Brigida

springline- Correct option: C:) The lieutenant


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12. The lieutenant admits he has nothing against the priest as a man, but he must be shot ‘as a danger’. On the eve of the execution, the lieutenant shows mercy and attempts to enlist Padre José to hear the condemned man's confession (which in extremis the Church would allow, and which the protagonist has agreed to), but the effort is thwarted by ___?

A:) Lieutenant

B:) Padre Jose

C:) Mr. Tench

D:) Padre José's wife

springline- Correct option: D:) Padre José's wife


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13. The lieutenant is convinced that he has ‘cleared the province of priests’. In the final scene, however, another priest arrives in the town. One faithful Catholic woman we had previously encountered telling lives of the saints in the underground has added the life of the protagonist to her repertoire, while forbidding her son to ever remember that this priest smelled strangely out of his ________?

A:) eyes

B:) fingers

C:) mouth

D:) ears

springline- Correct option: C:) mouth


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14. Among other possible readings, suggests that the Catholic Church cannot be destroyed. On a lighter level, it also suggests that a certain type of devotee will ever try to smooth down rough-edged saints into Fairchild family-like picturebook heroes, even if it stands in the way of properly celebrating their very real faith and _________?

A:) happiness

B:) heroism

C:) spiritualism

D:) hope

springline- Correct option: B:) heroism


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15. Greene visited Mexico from January to May 1938 to research and write a nonfiction account of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico, that he had been planning since _____?

A:) 1936

B:) 1938

C:) 1941

D:) 1942

springline- Correct option: A:) 1936


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16. Greene ;The persecution of the Catholic Church was especially severe in the province of Tabasco, under anti-clerical governor Tomás Garrido Canabal. His campaign succeeded in closing all the churches in the state. It forced the priests to marry and give up their soutanes. Greene called it the ‘fiercest persecution of religion anywhere since the reign of Elizabeth.’ He chronicled his travels in Tabasco in The Lawless Roads, published in ____?

A:) 1936

B:) 1937

C:) 1938

D:) 1939

springline- Correct option: D:) 1939


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17. The principal characters of The Power and the Glory all have antecedents in The Lawless Roads, mostly as people Greene encountered directly or, in the most important instance, a legendary character that people told him about, a certain ‘whisky priest’, a fugitive who, as Greene writes in The Lawless Roads, ‘existed for ten years in the forest and swamps, venturing out only at ____?

A:) early morning

B:) night

C:) mid-evening

D:) spring

springline- Correct option: B:) night


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18. In 1983, Greene said that he first started to become a Christian in Tabasco, where the fidelity of the peasants ‘assumed such proportions that I couldn't help being profoundly moved. Another of Greene's inspirations for his main character was the Jesuit priest Miguel Pro, who performed his priestly functions as an underground priest in _____?

A:) Tabasco

B:) Geneva

C:) Turkey

D:) Mexico

springline- Correct option: A:) Tabasco


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19. Despite having visited Mexico and published an account of his travels, in the novel Greene was not meticulous about Tabasco's geography. In The Power and the Glory, he identified the region's northern border as the U.S. and its southern border as the sea, when Tabasco's northern border is actually the ______?

A:) Chiapas

B:) West

C:) North

D:) the Bay of Campeche

springline- Correct option: D:) the Bay of Campeche


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20. Who is an idealistic, and believes in radical social reform that would end poverty and provide education for everyone and he is capable of acts of personal kindness, as when he gives the priest (whom he believes to be a destitute drunkar D:) money on leaving the jail ?

A:) Brigida

B:) the lieutenant

C:) Mr. Tench

D:) The Gringo

springline- Correct option: B:) the lieutenant


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21. The mestizo is the half-Indian peasant who insists on guiding the priest to Carmen. The priest knows that the mestizo will at some point hand him over to the authorities in exchange for a reward. The mestizo encounters the priest again in the prison, but prefers to wait for the right moment to betray him, which he does when leading him to the dying ______?

A:) American

B:) Indian

C:) British man

D:) Italian

springline- Correct option: A:) American


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22. Who is the mother of Brigitta, the priest’s daughter and She keeps brandy for the priest and helps him evade the police when they come to her village looking for him. Although she shows support when the ‘whisky priest’ reappears, the narrative leaves the character of her incomplete with implications of resentment ?

A:) Mr. Lehr

B:) Juan

C:) Maria

D:) The Jefe

springline- Correct option: C:) Maria


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23. A priest who obeyed the government’s instructions and took a wife. He is dominated by her and has lost both the respect of the town and his self-respect. He refuses to do any priestly duties, even when people beg him to, because he fears the authorities. What is the name of the character ?

A:) Padre José

B:) Mr. Tench

C:) Priest

D:) The Lieutenant

springline- Correct option: A:) Padre José


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24. Who is a dissatisfied English dentist who longs to return from Mexico to England and he befriends the priest, whom he meets at the quayside, and later witnesses his death ?

A:) Mestizo

B:) Coral Fellows

C:) Mr. Tench

D:) Padra Jose

springline- Correct option: C:) Mr. Tench


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25. Who is the thirteen-year-old daughter of Captain and Mrs. Fellows and she befriends the priest and offers refuge to him for the future. Her fate at the end of the novel is not revealed. Her parents have promised each other not to talk about her again ?

A:) The Gringo

B:) Coral Fellows

C:) Captain Fellows

D:) Mrs. Fellow

springline- Correct option: B:) Coral Fellows


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26. Mr. Lehr, a widower, and his sister, Miss Lehr, are an elderly couple who allow the priest to stay with them after he crosses the state border. They are Lutherans, and have little sympathy for Catholicism, although they treat the priest with kindness. Who is a young Mexican man who enters the priesthood, lives a pious life and faces his death by firing squad with great courage ?

A:) Juan

B:) Mr. Lehr

C:) The Jefe

D:) Mr. Tench

springline- Correct option: A:) Juan


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27. Evelyn Waugh in Greene's defence wrote, ‘It was as fatuous as unjust – a vile misreading of a noble book.’ Greene said that when he met Pope Paul VI in 1965, he assured Greene, ‘some aspects of your books are certain to offend some Catholics, but you should pay no attention to that. On its publication, Who claimed Greene had ‘captured the conscience of the twentieth century man like no other?

A:) I. A. Richards

B:) William Golding

C:) William Godwin

D:) Harold Pinter

springline- Correct option: B:) William Golding


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28. Greene suffered from periodic bouts of depression while at Oxford, and largely kept to himself. Of Greene's time at Oxford, his contemporary , Who noted that: ‘Graham Greene looked down on us (and perhaps all undergraduates) as childish and ostentatious. He certainly shared in none of our revelry ?

A:) Robert Graves

B:) George Orwell

C:) Evelyn Waugh

D:) Michael Korda

springline- Correct option: C:) Evelyn Waugh


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29. Greene is regarded as a major 20th-century novelist, and was praised by John Irving, prior to Greene's death, as ‘the most accomplished living novelist in the English language’. Who called Greene's novel The Power and the Glory a ‘tremendous influence ?

A:) George Eliot

B:) Frederick Buechner

C:) James Joyce

D:) George Orwell

springline- Correct option: B:) Frederick Buechner


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30. Greene collected several literary awards for his novels, including the 1941 Hawthornden Prize for The Power and the Glory and the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Heart of the Matter. As an author, he received the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize, a biennial literary award given to writers whose works have dealt with themes of human freedom in society. When he was awarded Britain's Order of Merit ?

A:) 1982

B:) 1984

C:) 1986

D:) 1988

springline- Correct option: C:) 1986