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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does God step into in 'The Creation' ?

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

5. Who is the poem, 'Go Down Death' about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the son say his new life compares to his old life in the poem 'The Prodigal Son'?

2. What is the final request the speaker of 'Listen, Lord' makes?

3. In the poem 'Judgment Day,' how does the God describe the righteous? What will they wear? What animal does he refer to them as?

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

5. In the poem 'Let My People Go,' how does the Pharaoh react to Moses' request? What does he do in response?

6. Why does the preacher say that Jesus does not name the man or his sons in 'The Prodigal Son'?

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

8. Describe what Noah tells the people and how the people react to him.

9. In the poem 'The Prodigal Son,' what happens to the son while he is in Babylon?

10. Why does God create in 'The Creation'?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one poem of Johnson's and discuss it's rhyming scheme. What is rhyming scheme? How do rhymes enhance a poem? Why does Johnson choose that specific rhyming scheme for the poem?

Essay Topic 2

Johnson describes God as both a father figure and motherly figure. Cite two examples, one where Johnson describes him as a mother and the other where he describes him as a father. How does the description work in the context of that particular poem?

Essay Topic 3

How does Johnson use dialect and dialogue in his poems? Site specific examples and discuss why Johnson makes the choices he does. What does it add to the poem?

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