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

2. How does God speak?
(a) like a Baptist preacher.
(b) with a rich, bass voice.
(c) in pantomime.
(d) in a high, soprano voice.

3. What form do the next scenes in the play take?
(a) more Sunday School lessons.
(b) literal reenactments of Bible scenes.
(c) dance sequences that tell Bible stories.
(d) the imaginings of the children about the stories.

4. What question does God pose to everyone?
(a) Does you believe?
(b) Is you getting enough to eat?
(c) Is you been baptized?
(d) Has you been good?

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Far away from God, what does Cain see?

2. How does Connelly refer to the girl?

3. What does the girl do after she gets Cain's attention?

4. After talking awhile, where do Cain and the girl go?

5. What is Cain's excuse for what he did to Abel?

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