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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. What is Moses' handicap when God comes to talk to him?
2. Before God works another trick for Moses to see, why does Moses stop him?
3. How does God show by His face that he is seeing something unusual on Earth?
4. What inscription is on the wall of Pharaoh's throne room?
5. Who is in charge of cleaning God's office in heaven?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where is Moses and what is he doing when God comes looking for him?
2. What does God say he will give Moses to make Pharaoh let the people leave Egypt?
3. When God appears in the Babylonian court, what does he say?
4. How does God introduce himself to Hezdrel when he goes back to Earth?
5. What is happening on Earth as the play comes to an end?
6. Why is God happy as Noah, his family, and the animals leave the ark?
7. What does Zipporah believe when Moses says that something is keeping him where he is?
8. What message does Hezdrel ask God to give to the people waiting in the hills?
9. How does the playwright suggest the Head Magician of Pharaoh's court appear?
10. When Noah tells Shem to let a dove loose, what does he say about his condition?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, Black Heaven in THE GREEN PASTURES. Itemize the features of heaven as presented in the play and discuss them as being relevant to the black culture of their day. Contrast the idea of a community fish fry to the more conventional concept of walking on golden streets strumming a harp.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, The Genuine sense of Religion in THE GREEN PASTURES. Compare the religious sense a reader or audience member gets from THE GREEN PASTURES as opposed to some of the overblown biblical epics Hollywood has made in the past. What is the evidence within the play that suggests a deep religious faith?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, THE GREEN PASTURES as a Drama Ahead of Its Time. Points in your essay should include the Civil Rights situation of blacks in the 1920s, the fact that this was a Broadway play with an all black cast, and the reasons for the discrepancies between the play's Biblical concepts and what is actually found in the Bible.
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