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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What sign is on the wall of Noah's house?
2. What does God do with a cigar?
3. What does God think about Cain and the girl?
4. For whom did Cain mistake God?
5. Why is God in Noah's house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the disagreement God and Noah have over the provisions for the ark?
2. What are the circumstances for Cain meeting his future wife?
3. What is God able to do with his cigar?
4. Why is God told that the moon is melting?
5. Who does the girl say she is?
6. How does Noah describe the condition of mankind on Earth?
7. Describe the activity of the girl sitting on a tree stump when God sees her.
8. What is Eve like just after she is created?
9. What does Cain say provoked him to kill Abel?
10. What does God say about Cain's actions?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, The Position of Women in THE GREEN PASTURES. In your essay give examples [e.g., the cleaning women in God's office] to illustrate two points: (1) black women as inferior because of their ethnicity, and (2) black women subservient to black men [e.g., Mrs. Noah].
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, THE GREEN PASTURES as a Drama Ahead of Its Time. Points in your essay should include the Civil Rights situation of blacks in the 1920s, the fact that this was a Broadway play with an all black cast, and the reasons for the discrepancies between the play's Biblical concepts and what is actually found in the Bible.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, The Concept of Sin in THE GREEN PASTURES. Select scenes that deal with sin in the play [e.g., Noah's description of the people's behavior and Zeba's behavior or Cain the Sixth's character] to discuss the overt human actions looked upon as sin in the play. Include how God prohibits dancing on the moon by declaring it a sin.
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