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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does David give for not wanting to go to Philadelphia with his mother?
(a) He doesn't want to miss music school.
(b) He doesn't like Philadelphia.
(c) He doesn't want to miss playing the guitar in church.
(d) He has a cold starting.

2. Where does the play, "The Amen Corner," take place?
(a) Boston.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Baltimore.

3. What do Margaret and Odessa agree that Brother Boxer doesn't have any right to be doing?
(a) Smoking and drinking.
(b) Driving a liquor truck.
(c) Not helping his wife with the house.
(d) Sitting in front of the television.

4. What is played as the music prologue to Act I?
(a) "If Jesus Had to Pray, What About Me?"
(b) "The Blues is Man."
(c) "I Laid My Burdens Down."
(d) "I Got the Holy Spirit."

5. What nickname does Luke call his wife?
(a) Marge.
(b) Peggy.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Sweetheart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to talk with the pastor about nothing being wrong with Brother Boxer's job in Act I?

2. Which of the characters is the pastor as the play opens?

3. Who is it that appears in the alley before the pastor leaves on a trip?

4. In the play, who claims to have left to get away from the stink of whiskey?

5. Who says, "Bring up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Act II, what does David remember about the time right before he became separated from his father?

2. Describe Sister Douglass from Act II.

3. Why do Sister Boxer and Sister Moore come to church early in Act III?

4. Margaret compares the story of King Hezekiah's story to a possible situation of the congregation. What situation does she compare the biblical story to?

5. In Act III, what does Margaret mean when she tells David that she's seen young men like him become the lowest of the low?

6. Why does Margaret want to take David with her to Philadelphia?

7. Why does Margaret slap her son in Act III?

8. Why does Odessa lecture people in the church about the costs of operating a church in Act II?

9. In Act II, what is Margaret's position about music in the church?

10. In Act II, what does the doctor not want Luke doing?

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