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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Cain do to Flatfoot?
(a) steals his girl.
(b) calls him names.
(c) cheats him at dice.
(d) kills him with a knife.
2. Why do they not want to bury Flatfoot?
(a) they fear Cain the Sixth.
(b) they are too lazy.
(c) they say he was no good.
(d) they think he isn't really dead.
3. What has the boy that God lifts by his ear been doing on Sunday?
(a) singing, dancing, and whooping it up.
(b) drinking, chewing tobacco, and gambling.
(c) fighting, cursing, and drinking.
(d) praying, singing, and reading the Bible.
4. What does God tell them not to do?
(a) to talk to snakes.
(b) to eat from one tree.
(c) to have babies.
(d) to go out of the garden.
5. What kind of music accompanies the dialog and action of the play?
(a) New Orleans jazz.
(b) banjo music.
(c) old Negro spirituals.
(d) pipe organ music.
6. How does the young man respond when God asks his name?
(a) Soap n' water, Country Boy.
(b) Made in the Shade, Buster.
(c) Puddin' and Tame.
(d) Who wants to know?
7. What is on the floor by God's desk?
(a) a puppy and a pair of shoes.
(b) a wastebasket and a magazine rack.
(c) a cuspidor and wastebasket
(d) a floor lamp and an end table.
8. What does God do to Abel?
(a) gives him a whipping.
(b) sends him away.
(c) turns him green.
(d) makes him a cripple.
9. Asked again what his name is, how does the young man identify himself?
(a) Gabriel the Sixth.
(b) Nod the Sixth.
(c) Cain the Sixth.
(d) Abel the Sixth.
10. What does Preacher Deshee say precipitated the argument between Cain and Abel?
(a) Abel said Cain should not sit under a tree.
(b) Abel said Cain ain't got no brains.
(c) Abel said Cain was wasting his time.
(d) Abel said Cain ain't got no shoes.
11. Where does the title of the play likely come from?
(a) the land of milk and honey.
(b) the shepherds that visited baby Jesus.
(c) the 23rd Psalm.
(d) the agricultural countryside of Louisiana.
12. What does Noah say when his knee twitches?
(a) it is an old football injury.
(b) it means it will freeze.
(c) it is arthritis.
(d) it is a sign of rain.
13. 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.
14. Why does God warn Gabriel about blowing the trumpet?
(a) it will cancel the fish fry.
(b) it signifies the end of the world.
(c) it will break the glass in the window.
(d) it will call up the Devil.
15. What does God promise Noah?
(a) it will rain 40 days and nights.
(b) he will live to be 1,000 years old.
(c) it will never rain again.
(d) there will be an ice storm.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Cain the Sixth and the gambling men do at the ark?
2. What form do the next scenes in the play take?
3. What does Zeba remember about Cain the Sixth?
4. What theatrical device is used to bring Eve onto the stage?
5. After being warned not to eat fruit of one tree, what happens?
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