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

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

4. What does preacher Deshee call Cain?
(a) a lazy boy.
(b) a mean rascal.
(c) a surprise to Adam and Eve.
(d) a tall fellow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Eve wearing at her creation?

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

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

4. What question does God pose to everyone?

5. How are the children described?

(see the answer key)

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