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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that Adam asks God?
(a) Who are you?
(b) Where do I sleep?
(c) What's a family?
(d) What time is it?

2. What is everyone drinking at the fish fry?
(a) boiled custard.
(b) goats' milk.
(c) Kentucky bourbon.
(d) iced tea with mint.

3. What are Adam and Eve supposed to do?
(a) tend the garden.
(b) plant trees.
(c) cut flowers.
(d) build a hut.

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

5. How are the different scenarios represented in the play?
(a) as Greek tragedies.
(b) as events from the people's actual lives.
(c) as tableaux posed like living statues.
(d) as events in costumes of the Biblical period.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the children described?

2. What is the Archangel passing out?

3. What is God wearing?

4. How is this Adam different from the story in the Bible?

5. After being warned not to eat fruit of one tree, what happens?

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