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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Adam look as the scene opens after his creation?
(a) angry.
(b) happy.
(c) puzzled.
(d) sleepy.

3. What does the girl do after she gets Cain's attention?
(a) asks him to help her down.
(b) throw rocks at him.
(c) warn him about tigers.
(d) begins to flirt with him.

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

5. Why doesn't God populate the earth with angels instead of men?
(a) they are not much on working crops and building levees.
(b) they have a contract to stay in heaven.
(c) they would lose their wings on earth.
(d) they would just fly back to heaven.

6. What kind of music accompanies the dialog and action of the play?
(a) banjo music.
(b) pipe organ music.
(c) old Negro spirituals.
(d) New Orleans jazz.

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

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

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

10. How is the girl dressed?
(a) as a showgirl.
(b) in work pants and shirt.
(c) in flashy clothes.
(d) in a gingham dress.

11. What has Cain done to his brother?
(a) beat him up.
(b) killed him with a rock.
(c) tied him up.
(d) painted his face.

12. When God tells the girl she is on her way to Hell, what does she reply?
(a) she is on her way to college.
(b) she is on her way to a picnic.
(c) she is on her way to the city.
(d) she is on her way to church.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What form do the next scenes in the play take?

2. What does God do to Abel?

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

4. How is this Adam different from the story in the Bible?

5. What does the choir sing as Cain exits?

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