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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the third stanza of 'The Prodigal Son,', one of the man's sons approaches him with a question. Which son approaches?
(a) The oldest son.
(b) The oldest son is prompted by the youngest.
(c) The youngest son.
(d) Both sons.

3. How does the speaker describe God in the poem 'Listen, Lord'?
(a) Non-existant.
(b) Big.
(c) Small.
(d) Friendly.

4. In 'The Creation' what does God roll in his hand in the fourth stanza?
(a) Clay.
(b) Mud.
(c) Light.
(d) Darkness.

5. How does God bring man to life in the last stanza of 'The Creation'?
(a) He claps his hands.
(b) He holds him.
(c) He blows breath into him.
(d) He prays.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'The Prodigal Son,' what work did the boy do at his father's home?

2. In 'Listen, Lord,' what does Johnson write that the preacher should be able to look through ?

3. What is the poem 'The Creation' about?

4. What does the speaker ask for the sinners in the poem 'Listen, Lord'?

5. What does the boy become in stanza eleven of 'The Prodigal Son' ?

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