Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in ?

   A. Mexico
   B. Italy
   C. France
   D. Germany

2. Wanders in that happy valley Through two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically To a lute’s well-tunéd law, Round about a throne, where sitting (Porphyrogene!) In state his glory well befitting, The sovereign of the realm was seen. What does Porphyrogene mean ?

   A. Born to be free
   B. Inflicted with the disease Porphyria
   C. Of royal birth
   D. Wearing purple robes

3. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?

   A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
   B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
   C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
   D. Paul Scott’s Staying On

4. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?

   A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
   B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
   C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
   D. Paul Scott’s Staying On

5. The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” ends with the following lines: “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?

   A. Brooke’s inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize
   the distance between the ideals ofWestern civilization and its realities.
   B. These lines suggest the author’s anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.
   C. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.
   D. All of the above

6. In “Mont Blanc,” Shelley likens the power of the mountain to the power of human imagination in order to __________________?

   A. Demonstrate how the human imagination is fragile
   B. Demonstrate how the human mind comprehends and perceives truth
   C. Demonstrate the power of the French Revolution on the British Romantic consciousness
   D. Demonstrate the intrinsic connection between imagination and death

7. What does Faustus promise to the devil in exchange for great knowledge, riches and power for a period of 24 years ?

   A. his body
   B. his house
   C. his soul
   D. his horse

8. ’Book 1’ of ’Paradise Lost’ presents Satan with his angels fallen into Hell. When recovered, Satan awakens all his legions and speaks to them. The first he addresses is described as ’one next to himself in power, and next in crime, long after known in Palestine’. What’s the name of this fallen angel?

   A. Mammon
   B. Moloch
   C. Beelzebub
   D. Ashtaroth

9. What religion had the most political and social power in Shakespeare’s time ?

   A. Catholicism
   B. Buddhism
   C. Protestantism
   D. Mormonism

10. Please identify the text from which “then must any what you like in the power of empthoo” comes ?

    A. “Araby”
    B. “The Dead”
    C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    D. Finnegans Wake