The Green Pastures | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Part 1, Scene 1

1. What is the setting for the opening scene of the play?

a Southern African American church social.

2. What is preacher Deshee doing as the play begins?

teaching a Sunday School lesson to ten children.

3. How are the children described?

as having various attention levels and vivid imaginations.

4. How does preacher Deshee begin his lesson?

with the first five books of the Bible.

5. How do the children disturb preacher Deshee?

with their questions.

6. What is Carlisle's first question to preacher Deshee?

Why did God create the world as it is?

7. What does Carlisle want to know about God?

what He looks like.

8. What does preacher Deshee say about God?

He looks like a distinguished Negro preacher.

9. Where in the Bible does preacher Deshee start reading?

from Genesis.

10. What form do the next scenes in...
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