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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does preacher Deshee say about God?
(a) He looks like a distinguished Negro preacher.
(b) He sometimes makes mistakes.
(c) He wears high platform shoes.
(d) He eats ambrosia every day.

2. What does the girl call God?
(a) Tall and handsome.
(b) Limber Lips.
(c) Honey Boy.
(d) Banjo Eyes.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is preacher Deshee doing as the play begins?

2. What does God give Noah?

3. What question does God pose to everyone?

4. When does Noah recognize God?

5. How does the story Preacher Deshee tell differ from the Bible story of Cain and Abel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Noah describe the condition of mankind on Earth?

2. Where does God tell Cain to go?

3. What does the ark look like as it is built?

4. How does the playwright indicate that long journeys on foot be presented on a small stage?

5. What does God say about Cain's actions?

6. What is the disagreement God and Noah have over the provisions for the ark?

7. Describe the activity of the girl sitting on a tree stump when God sees her.

8. Why is God told that the moon is melting?

9. What does Cain say provoked him to kill Abel?

10. Describe Noah as his sons do the construction on the ark.

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