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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Back in the Sunday School class, what does a girl tell preacher Deshee that Adam and Eve did?
(a) Adam and Eve built a fence around the tree.
(b) Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.
(c) Adam ate the fruit and gave some to Eve.
(d) Adam and Eve walked out of the garden.

2. How do the children disturb preacher Deshee?
(a) by giving wrong answers.
(b) by laughing too much.
(c) with their questions.
(d) by fanning themselves.

3. Who does the girl say she is?
(a) Cain's great-great granddaughter.
(b) Adam's great-great granddaughter.
(c) Seth's great-great granddaughter.
(d) Abel's great-great granddaughter.

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

5. What does God give Noah?
(a) a top hat.
(b) a cigar.
(c) a table of stone.
(d) a Bible.

6. What does Cain say about flinging a rock at Abel?
(a) I can fling farther than he can.
(b) if I hit him, all right; if I miss him all right.
(c) I just want to scare him.
(d) I never miss with a rock.

7. What can be seen inside the desk when it is open?
(a) a pair of dice.
(b) a collection of quills and ink.
(c) various papers stuck in pigeonholes.
(d) a large ledger.

8. What is the main item of furniture in God's office?
(a) a teakwood desk.
(b) two apple crates and a door.
(c) a conference table.
(d) a battered roll top desk

9. How does God stop the angels from dancing on the moon?
(a) He freezes the moon.
(b) He takes the moon out of the sky.
(c) He declares it a sin.
(d) He turns the moon into cheese.

10. How does the story Preacher Deshee tell differ from the Bible story of Cain and Abel?
(a) the Bible story gives no explanation for the murder.
(b) the Bible story had to do with sacrifices they made.
(c) the Bible story is about Cain killing Seth.
(d) the Bible story is exactly the same.

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

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

13. Where does the title of the play likely come from?
(a) the agricultural countryside of Louisiana.
(b) the land of milk and honey.
(c) the 23rd Psalm.
(d) the shepherds that visited baby Jesus.

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

15. Why does Zeba make up with Cain the Sixth?
(a) she likes his style.
(b) she sees his diamond ring.
(c) she is scared.
(d) she always liked him best.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do they not want to bury Flatfoot?

2. What is it that Adam asks God?

3. How is the girl dressed?

4. What does Cain say Abel called him?

5. What is Carlisle's first question to preacher Deshee?

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