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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 the girl call God?
2. What form do the next scenes in the play take?
3. What are Adam and Eve supposed to do?
4. Why does God say he has been walking the earth?
5. What does God's office look like?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Cain at first finds no other people, what does he think?
2. How does Noah describe the condition of mankind on Earth?
3. What is Eve like just after she is created?
4. After 300 or 400 years, what does God decide to do and why?
5. What are the circumstances for Cain meeting his future wife?
6. What is the scene like in Noah's house?
7. What has Cain done as God comes down to Earth?
8. Describe the activity of the girl sitting on a tree stump when God sees her.
9. What is God able to do with his cigar?
10. At what point does Noah become aware that he is talking to God?
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, Dramatic License in THE GREEN PASTURES. Include in your essay characters, locations, and time that are made up by Marc Connelly to put together his drama. In your essay evaluate the probable reasons for taking such liberties with the biblical accounts.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, The Genuine sense of Religion in THE GREEN PASTURES. Compare the religious sense a reader or audience member gets from THE GREEN PASTURES as opposed to some of the overblown biblical epics Hollywood has made in the past. What is the evidence within the play that suggests a deep religious faith?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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