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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Creation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the 'Listen, Lord' speaker want bestowed upon the preacher?
(a) Gold.
(b) Vengeance.
(c) Blessings.
(d) Forgiveness.

2. In 'The Creation,' what does God want to end?
(a) War.
(b) His existence.
(c) His loneliness.
(d) World hunger.

3. What does the speaker ask for the sinners in the poem 'Listen, Lord'?
(a) Relgion.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Gold.
(d) Revenge.

4. What does the speaker ask God for in 'Listen, Lord'?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Help.
(d) Freedom.

5. In 'Listen, Lord,' what does Johnson write that the preacher should be able to look through ?
(a) The telescope of clarity.
(b) The telescope of death.
(c) The telescope of truth.
(d) The telescope of eternity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God describe as "Blacker that a hundred midnights?"

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

3. How many actions does each stanza in 'The Creation' describe?

4. In 'The Creation,' what does the leftover light create?

5. In the poem 'Listen, Lord,' how does the speaker want the preacher to deliver the word of God?

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