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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 kind of music accompanies the dialog and action of the play?
(a) banjo music.
(b) New Orleans jazz.
(c) pipe organ music.
(d) old Negro spirituals.

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

3. After being warned not to eat fruit of one tree, what happens?
(a) they turn their backs on the forbidden tree.
(b) they look for a snake to see if it can talk.
(c) they start looking for the forbidden tree.
(d) they immediately see the forbidden tree and head for it.

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

5. Where does the title of the play likely come from?
(a) the 23rd Psalm.
(b) the land of milk and honey.
(c) the agricultural countryside of Louisiana.
(d) the shepherds that visited baby Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What pleases Adam after he gets used to being a man?

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

4. What question does God pose to everyone?

5. What is it that Adam asks God?

(see the answer key)

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