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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who strolls the deck and smokes a pipe?
(a) God
(b) First Mate Shem
(c) Noah's wife
(d) Captain Noah

3. Who does God encounter as He goes along on earth?
(a) a boy skipping Sunday School.
(b) a woman on a donkey.
(c) a peddler.
(d) an 18-year-old female.

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

5. Why is God in Noah's house?
(a) to plan a revival.
(b) for dinner.
(c) to get out of the rain.
(d) for a prayer meeting.

6. What does Carlisle want to know about God?
(a) how tall He is.
(b) where He came from.
(c) what He looks like.
(d) where to find Him.

7. What is the Archangel passing out?
(a) napkins and paper plates.
(b) Sunday School graduation cards.
(c) medals to heroic angels.
(d) invitations to a party.

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

9. What does Cain say Abel called him?
(a) a dirty farmer.
(b) an ugly duckling.
(c) a brainless fool.
(d) a fat pig.

10. What does Noah tell God is the problem with men?
(a) lack of education and jobs.
(b) listening to false teachers.
(c) loose living, fighting, gambling and bootlegging.
(d) dancing with the Devil's angels.

11. What does Cain do to Flatfoot?
(a) kills him with a knife.
(b) cheats him at dice.
(c) calls him names.
(d) steals his girl.

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

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

14. What does God tell Adam and Eve to do?
(a) move to another country.
(b) forget they ever had Cain.
(c) build a fence around their place to keep Cain out.
(d) have Seth and more children.

15. Where is heaven located?
(a) floating on a big cloud.
(b) everywhere, except where Satan is.
(c) under a huge apple tree.
(d) on the banks of the Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Cain feel he has been walking to get to the Land of Nod?

2. Where does the title of the play likely come from?

3. How does God speak?

4. What is the conversation like between Cain and the girl?

5. How are the children described?

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