FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Mexico
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Italy
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France
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Germany
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Published in 1940, the The Power and the Glory is set in Mexico during the 1930s. The novel tells the story of an unnamed Catholic priest on the run from a high-minded police lieutenant determined to arrest him.
Detailed explanation-3: -The story is based on a true happening in history in Mexico back in the 1920s when the government ran a campaign of religious persecution and hundreds of priests were rounded up and murdered and their churches destroyed.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Power and the Glory is a novel published in 1940 by the celebrated English author Graham Greene.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the world of Graham Greene’s 1940 novel, The Power and the Glory, it’s a bad time to be a Catholic. The book’s hero is an unnamed priest on the run from Mexican authorities after a state governor has ordered the military to dismantle all vestiges of the religion.