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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 does God promise Noah?
2. What is on the floor by God's desk?
3. Back in the Sunday School class, what does a girl tell preacher Deshee that Adam and Eve did?
4. What kind of music accompanies the dialog and action of the play?
5. What is Noah wearing?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is God told that the moon is melting?
2. Describe the activity of the girl sitting on a tree stump when God sees her.
3. What is the disagreement God and Noah have over the provisions for the ark?
4. What does Adam seem to be very proud of?
5. What is unique about THE GREEN PASTURES for its day?
6. What does Zeba remember when Cain the Sixth comes to poke fun at Noah and his ark?
7. Who is left in charge in heaven in God's absence?
8. After 300 or 400 years, what does God decide to do and why?
9. After meeting a succession of sinners, describe how God meets up with Noah.
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, What the Viewer Can Get from THE GREEN PASTURES Today. Placing the play in its Depression era setting, your essay should include (1) how black stereotypes are used in the play, (2) the play's value in giving a real sense of history, and (3) the importance of remembering stereotypes as a way of keeping social perspective.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, The Contrast Between Noah and the People. Your essay should go into the details of the people's behavior that causes God to want to destroy them all; the efforts of Noah to preach to the people; and, finally, the fact that only Noah is disturbed when the people refuse to bury Flatfoot after his murder.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, The Children in THE GREEN PASTURES. Discuss the use of children as a dramatic device to set up the plot of THE GREEN PASTURES. Note that the children are stereotypical of children in general rather than as racial caricatures. Include examples of incessant questions, fidgeting in Sunday School, and angelic children misbehaving in the heavenly fish fry.
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