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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem 'Listen, Lord,' what does the speaker say the preacher's imagination should be cleaned with?

2. In 'The Prodigal Son,' what does the father eventually give to his son?

3. What does the boy become in stanza eleven of 'The Prodigal Son' ?

4. What does the speaker ask God for in 'Listen, Lord'?

5. How does God feel after he created all the elements of the earth and sky?

Short Essay Questions

1. What finally convinces the Pharaoh to do God's bidding in 'Let My People Go'?

2. Who is Jesus taken before in 'The Crucifixion'? What is this leaders response to Jesus?

3. Where does God go to ponder His loneliness in the poem 'The Creation'?

4. How is Jesus dressed for the crucifixion?

5. How did Adam and Even disobey God? What did God warn them not to do?

6. What does stanza one of 'The Prodigal Son' warn men about?

7. How does the God describe the sinners in 'Judgment Day'? What will they wear? What animal does he refer to them as?

8. How does Judas betray Jesus in the poem 'The Crucifixion'?

9. Why does God create in 'The Creation'?

10. What does the younger son in 'The Prodigal Son' ask his father for? What is his father's response?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Johnson use dialect and dialogue in his poems? Site specific examples and discuss why Johnson makes the choices he does. What does it add to the poem?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the story of Adam and Eve. How does Johnson relate their story to Noah? What role does Satan play in their story?

Essay Topic 3

Choose two poems. One poem should show God as vengeful and the other as merciful. Discuss how Johnson addresses these two sides of God. Site specific examples from the text.

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