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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Scene 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does preacher Deshee say about God?
(a) He looks like a distinguished Negro preacher.
(b) He eats ambrosia every day.
(c) He sometimes makes mistakes.
(d) He wears high platform shoes.

2. What pleases Adam after he gets used to being a man?
(a) how his muscles move.
(b) how his ears work.
(c) how his clothes look.
(d) how his eyes can see.

3. How does preacher Deshee begin his lesson?
(a) with a prayer and a spiritual hymn.
(b) with the book of Job.
(c) with the first five books of the Bible.
(d) with a reading from the New Testament.

4. What theatrical device is used to bring Eve onto the stage?
(a) a trap door lifts her out onto the stage.
(b) the lights dim and come back up again.
(c) a smoke bomb goes off.
(d) the curtain closes and reopens.

5. For whom did Cain mistake God?
(a) a policeman.
(b) a preacher.
(c) an archangel.
(d) a cherub.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God tell Cain to do?

2. Where does the title of the play likely come from?

3. What form do the next scenes in the play take?

4. What is the setting for the opening scene of the play?

5. What is Carlisle's first question to preacher Deshee?

(see the answer key)

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