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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 are the cherubs doing at the fish fry?
(a) constantly misbehaving.
(b) catching fish.
(c) reciting Bible verses.
(d) playing small harps.

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

3. What is the setting for the opening scene of the play?
(a) the creation of the Earth.
(b) a Southern African American church social.
(c) a big reunion in Heaven.
(d) a Baptist Sunday School.

4. Where in the Bible does preacher Deshee start reading?
(a) from the Psalms.
(b) from Revelation.
(c) from Genesis.
(d) from the Gospel of John.

5. How is this Adam different from the story in the Bible?
(a) he is wearing work clothes.
(b) he is accompanied by several women.
(c) he has wings like the angels.
(d) he is short and ugly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Back in the Sunday School class, what does a girl tell preacher Deshee that Adam and Eve did?

3. What is preacher Deshee doing as the play begins?

4. What is God wearing?

5. What is Adam happy about as God approaches him?

(see the answer key)

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