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

2. In 'Listen, Lord,' what does the preacher say the congregation need to be filled with?
(a) Faith.
(b) Water.
(c) Soul.
(d) God.

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

4. What does the boy become in stanza eleven of 'The Prodigal Son' ?
(a) A prince.
(b) A banker.
(c) A thief.
(d) A beggar.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 'The Prodigal Son,' what are the people in the city like?

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

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

5. How does the speaker describe the congregation in 'Listen, Lord'?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How long do the floods last in the poem 'Noah Built the Ark'?

3. How does God create man in the poem 'The Creation'? How does He bring man to life?

4. Who will God judge on Judgment Day?

5. Whom does 'Listen, Lord' request blessings be delivered upon?

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

7. In the poem 'The Crucifixion,' what does the preacher make sure to point out about the man that helps Jesus carry his cross?

8. God is looking for Adam and Eve at the start of 'Noah Built the Ark.' Where is he searching? How does he find them?

9. How is Jesus dressed for the crucifixion?

10. How does the son's father in the poem 'The Prodigal Son' receive him after they meet again?

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