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Graham Greene

The Destructors

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1954

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Exam Answer Key

Multiple Choice

1. B (Part 1)

2. A (Part 1)

3. C (Part 1)

4. A (Various parts)

5. B (Part 2)

6. A (Part 3)

7. D (All parts)

8. D (All parts)

Long Answer

1. Graham Greene writes his story in a third-person narration style; however, the narrator’s familiar tone and word choice suggests that he might be one of the boys in the gang. The tone is gloomy and characterized by destruction; the narrator frequently uses the color gray to underline the feeling of postwar malaise. (All parts)

2. Greene uses Old Misery’s house to symbolize organized religion as well as religious ideology, which is torn down by materialism. (Various parts)

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