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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is 'Listen, Lord' about?
(a) A hymn.
(b) A chat.
(c) A prayer.
(d) A psalm.

2. What does the 'Listen, Lord' speaker want the preacher cleaned of?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Paint.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Sin.

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

4. What experience is the woman in 'Go Down Death' going through?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Joy.
(c) Pain.
(d) Marriage.

5. Who does the speaker of 'Listen, Lord' want the people to worship?
(a) The King.
(b) God.
(c) The Angels.
(d) Him.

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

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

8. What does God step into in 'The Creation' ?
(a) Heaven.
(b) A crowd.
(c) An unlit room.
(d) An empty space.

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

10. What city does the boy visit in stanza eight of 'The Prodigal Son' ?
(a) Babylon.
(b) Lot.
(c) Caanan.
(d) Jerusalem.

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

12. What is the woman's reaction to Death in 'Go Down Death'?
(a) She screams.
(b) She does not see him.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She recognizes him.

13. What does the first stanza of 'The Prodigal Son' claim men are lacking in combat?
(a) Faith.
(b) Power and size.
(c) Technique.
(d) Armor.

14. What is the preacher about to do in the third stanza of 'Listen, Lord'?
(a) Pray.
(b) Take communion.
(c) Confess.
(d) Deliver a sermon.

15. What is the boy's new life like in 'The Prodigal Son' ?
(a) Hard.
(b) Easy.
(c) Full of joy.
(d) Full of family.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In 'Go Down Death,' where does the preacher say the dead go?

4. What message does the Preacher deliver at the end of the poem, 'Go Down Death'?

5. In 'The Prodigal Son,' whose house does the preacher say every boy wants to leave?

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