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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 the preacher cleaned of?
(a) Sin.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Paint.
(d) Guilt.

2. In the poem 'The Creation' what helps things to grow in stanza seven?
(a) God's footsteps.
(b) Love.
(c) Rain.
(d) Farmers.

3. In the poem 'Listen, Lord,' what does the speaker say the preacher's imagination should be cleaned with?
(a) Soap.
(b) Bleach.
(c) Oil.
(d) Turpentine.

4. What does the speaker request in the final stanza of 'Listen, Lord'?
(a) A morning dove.
(b) A peaceful death.
(c) A sign.
(d) A wonderful preacher.

5. What does the speaker want God to give the preacher in 'Listen, Lord'?
(a) Food.
(b) Gold.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Johnson write rests between the sun and the stars in the poem 'The Creation'?

3. How does the speaker describe the congregation in 'Listen, Lord'?

4. Who is the voice of 'The Creation'?

5. How does God bring man to life in the last stanza of 'The Creation'?

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