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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When the firmament makes everyone wet, what does God create?
(a) the Wind to dry off the angels' wings.
(b) the Earth and the Sun to dry off the angels' wings.
(c) a tent for the outdoor meeting.
(d) the Desert to dry off the angels' wings.

3. Why does Noah apologize to God?
(a) for taking his cigar.
(b) for telling him about the sinners.
(c) for not recognizing him.
(d) for inviting him into his house.

4. What is on the floor by God's desk?
(a) a floor lamp and an end table.
(b) a wastebasket and a magazine rack.
(c) a cuspidor and wastebasket
(d) a puppy and a pair of shoes.

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

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

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

8. Who announces the approach of God?
(a) preacher Deshee.
(b) Gabriel.
(c) Michael.
(d) the heavenly choir.

9. What does God promise Noah?
(a) there will be an ice storm.
(b) it will never rain again.
(c) he will live to be 1,000 years old.
(d) it will rain 40 days and nights.

10. Where is God walking on earth after not visiting there for 300 or 400 years?
(a) on a country road.
(b) sitting on a stump.
(c) riding a bicycle.
(d) in a church.

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

12. Why do they not want to bury Flatfoot?
(a) they say he was no good.
(b) they think he isn't really dead.
(c) they fear Cain the Sixth.
(d) they are too lazy.

13. What is the girl on the stump doing?
(a) playing a ukelele and singing the blues.
(b) writing in her diary.
(c) smoking a cigarette.
(d) eating an apple.

14. What is the conversation like between Cain and the girl?
(a) flirtatious.
(b) argumentative.
(c) angry.
(d) comical.

15. What is Noah wearing?
(a) a silk hat, captain's uniform, and a rain slicker
(b) a top hat and tails
(c) a sailor cap, a white yachting jacket, and a raincoat
(d) a T-shirt and baggy pants

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Noah recognize God?

2. Why doesn't God populate the earth with angels instead of men?

3. What does the choir sing as Cain exits?

4. How are the children described?

5. What are Adam and Eve supposed to do?

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