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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. How long has Luke been separated from his wife and son?
(a) 12 years.
(b) 11 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 8 years.

2. Which of the characters is the pastor as the play opens?
(a) Brother Boxer.
(b) Ida Jackson.
(c) Margaret Alexander.
(d) Sister Moore.

3. What scenery does the play open with?
(a) The scrim wall of the tenement.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) A street scene.
(d) The church.

4. Who does the pastor suggest as a substitute piano player for the church service?
(a) Sister Price.
(b) Sister Jackson.
(c) Sister David.
(d) Sister Moore.

5. What is located stage right in the first act and throughout the play?
(a) The church.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) A bedroom.
(d) The living room.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Luke, who goes digging for pork chops when she sees a man?

2. Where does the play, "The Amen Corner," take place?

3. In the sermon in the first act, who does the pastor say that King Hezekiah called on?

4. What nickname does Luke call his wife?

5. The first spoken part of the play is from what character?

Short Essay Questions

1. What signs are in Act I that Luke is sick?

2. Why doesn't David want to go to Philadelphia?

3. In Act II, David tells his father about some guys coming to the church. What did both David and his mother think brought the men to the church?

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

5. In Act II, Sister Moore reports that people are coming to the church because they want an accounting from the church elders. What is she referring to?

6. In Act I, what do we know about Ida Jackson's husband, who isn't with her?

7. Why does Margaret demand that David turn off the music on the phonograph in Act II?

8. 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?

9. Margaret speaks of an old blind woman from her childhood in Act III. The woman used to greet everyone with "How you this Lord's-day morning" no matter what the day. Who is Margaret comparing the old blind woman to and why?

10. Why does Odessa refer to Sister Moore as "poor Sister Moore" in Act III?

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