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

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

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

4. Who are the characters participating in the heavenly fish fry?
(a) Adam, Moses, and Seth.
(b) God, Gabriel, and the Archangel.
(c) black angels of all sizes and sexes.
(d) preacher Deshee's congregation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God have on His feet?

2. How are the different scenarios represented in the play?

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

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

5. What does Carlisle want to know about God?

(see the answer key)

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