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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 toward family.
(b) Turn away from family.
(c) Turn away from Babylon.
(d) Turn away from God.

2. In 'Go Down Death,' where does the preacher say the dead go?
(a) To Heaven.
(b) To Jesus.
(c) To God.
(d) To Hell.

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

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

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

6. What are the women in the city like in the poem 'The Prodigal Son' ?
(a) They are respectful.
(b) They bring men to prayer.
(c) They are pious.
(d) They lure men to sin.

7. What does the prodigal son ask his father for?
(a) Part of his money.
(b) Love.
(c) Part of his cattle.
(d) Part of his property.

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

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

10. What message does the Preacher deliver at the end of the poem, 'Go Down Death'?
(a) That the woman should have changed her life.
(b) That the woman is dead.
(c) That the woman is doomed to a life in Hell.
(d) That the woman is not dead but with Jesus.

11. In 'The Prodigal Son,' whose house does the preacher say every boy wants to leave?
(a) God's.
(b) His mother's.
(c) His father's.
(d) His brother's.

12. How are the walls of time described in the poem 'Listen, Lord'?
(a) Like sand.
(b) Like silk.
(c) Like paper.
(d) Like oil.

13. 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.

14. Who is the voice of 'The Creation'?
(a) A poor man.
(b) Jesus.
(c) God.
(d) The preacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In stanza three of 'The Creation,' what body of water does the author use to describe darkness?

3. Where does God send Death in 'Go Down Death'?

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

5. What does the speaker in 'Listen, Lord' say God rides on?

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