God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 101 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the 'Listen, Lord' speaker want bestowed upon the preacher?
(a) Blessings.
(b) Gold.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Vengeance.

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

3. What is 'Go Down Death' about?
(a) A funeral.
(b) Death.
(c) Hell.
(d) Heaven.

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

5. What tool does the speaker in 'Listen, Lord' say the preachers words should be similar to?
(a) A sledge hammer.
(b) A ice pick.
(c) A buzz saw.
(d) A screwdriver.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the preacher in 'Go Down Death' describe Death's body?

2. Where does Johnson say in the poem 'The Prodigal Son,' the road away from one's father lead?

3. In 'The Prodigal Son,' how does the father treat his son when he sees him?

4. In 'Listen, Lord,' what does the speaker want the congregation to realize?

5. How does the father respond to his son's request in 'The Prodigal Son.'.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what the poem 'The Creation' is about. Be specific.

2. In 'Listen, Lord', where does the preacher plea God ride past? What does he say God will be riding on?

3. What does the younger son in 'The Prodigal Son' ask his father for? What is his father's response?

4. How did Adam and Even disobey God? What did God warn them not to do?

5. Where does God go to ponder His loneliness in the poem 'The Creation'?

6. How will God react to the cries of the sinners in the poem 'Judgment Day'?

7. Who will God judge on Judgment Day?

8. What sign does God deliver at the end of 'Noah Built the Ark' and what does the sign mean?

9. How does Sister Caroline react to seeing God?

10. What does the preacher interject into the middle of the poem 'The Prodigal Son'?

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