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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. How does preacher Deshee begin his lesson?
(a) with a prayer and a spiritual hymn.
(b) with the book of Job.
(c) with the first five books of the Bible.
(d) with a reading from the New Testament.

2. What is God wearing?
(a) a white flowing robe.
(b) a pair of overalls and a red shirt.
(c) a white shirt, white bow tie, and a Prince Albert coat.
(d) a white tuxedo.

3. Why does God tell Cain to raise children?
(a) there is nothing like a family to help out with all the work.
(b) there is nothing like a family to keep a man from loneliness.
(c) there is nothing like a family to make a man forget his troubles.
(d) there is nothing like a family to punish a man for his deeds.

4. What does God tell Cain to do?
(a) live in a cave.
(b) eat insects and honey.
(c) live with the monkeys.
(d) find a wife and have children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God tell them not to do?

2. What question does God pose to everyone?

3. For whom did Cain mistake God?

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

5. How does the story Preacher Deshee tell differ from the Bible story of Cain and Abel?

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