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

2. In 'Go Down Death,' what does death ride upon?
(a) A cloud.
(b) A wing.
(c) A dark horse.
(d) A pale horse.

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

4. What does the boy in 'The Prodigal Son' compare his new life to?
(a) Life with his father.
(b) Life in the city.
(c) Life in the town.
(d) Life with his brother.

5. What is missing in the city the prodigal son travels to?
(a) A cattle ranch.
(b) A place to pray.
(c) Sin.
(d) A market.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city does the boy visit in stanza eight of 'The Prodigal Son' ?

2. In the second stanza of 'Go Down Death' what does the preacher do?

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

4. What does God create in the sixth stanza of 'The Creation'?

5. In 'The Prodigal Son' what does the preacher say people can be categorized as?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How will people know that Judgment Day arrives? Who will notify them?

3. What does stanza one of 'The Prodigal Son' warn men about?

4. In 'Let My People Go,' what does God ask Moses to do? What is Moses' reaction?

5. How does God comfort Sister Caroline?

6. Describe Death in 'Go Down Death.'

7. What finally convinces the Pharaoh to do God's bidding in 'Let My People Go'?

8. How is Jesus dressed for the crucifixion?

9. How does the God describe the sinners in 'Judgment Day'? What will they wear? What animal does he refer to them as?

10. What question does the preacher ask his congregation at the end of the poem 'Judgment Day'?

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