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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the preacher ask the men of his congregation to do at the end of the poem 'The Prodigal Son' ?
(a) Turn away from God.
(b) Turn away from Babylon.
(c) Turn away from family.
(d) Turn toward family.

2. What does God create in the sixth stanza of 'The Creation'?
(a) The seas.
(b) The earth.
(c) The sky.
(d) The sun.

3. What is the woman's reaction to the person Death takes her to meet in 'Go Down Death'?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She does nothing.
(c) She cries.
(d) She screams.

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

5. Why does preacher say Jesus did not name the man or his sons in 'The Prodigal Son' ?
(a) Because the man and his sons are not important.
(b) Jesus does name the man and his sons.
(c) Because no one is named in the bible.
(d) Because they represent God and all of humankind.

6. What does God create in the fourth stanza of 'The Creation'?
(a) The moon.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The earth.
(d) The sun.

7. In 'Listen, Lord,' what emotional position is the speaker in during the first stanza?
(a) A humble position
(b) A sad position.
(c) A happy position.
(d) A powerful position.

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

9. In 'Listen, Lord,' what does the speaker want the congregation to realize?
(a) They are pious.
(b) They are lucky.
(c) They are smaller then God.
(d) They are kind.

10. Who does God call to him in 'Go Down Death'?
(a) The angels.
(b) His servants.
(c) Death.
(d) His son.

11. In the poem 'The Creation,' what appears in the sky at the end of stanza seven?
(a) The moon.
(b) The stars.
(c) A rainbow.
(d) God.

12. In the second stanza of 'Go Down Death' what does the preacher do?
(a) Goes forward in time.
(b) Goes to church.
(c) Goes back in time.
(d) Prays.

13. In the poem 'Listen, Lord,' how does the speaker want the preacher to deliver the word of God?
(a) Like it should be delivered.
(b) Quietly.
(c) With enthusiasm.
(d) In sign language.

14. 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 is prompted by the youngest.
(b) The youngest son.
(c) Both sons.
(d) The oldest son.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy in 'The Prodigal Son' compare his new life to?

2. What tool does the speaker in 'Listen, Lord' say the preachers words should be similar to?

3. What does the 'Listen, Lord' speaker want the preacher cleaned of?

4. In the second stanza of 'The Creation' what is the only thing that God can see?

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

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