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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the choir sing as Cain exits?
(a) Land Across the Jordan
(b) Go Down Moses
(c) Run, Sinner, Run
(d) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Connelly describe the girl physically?

2. How does Adam look as the scene opens after his creation?

3. How is the girl dressed?

4. What does God tell them not to do?

5. What does God tell Adam and Eve to do?

(see the answer key)

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