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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. How does God speak?
2. What question does God pose to everyone?
3. Where in the Bible does preacher Deshee start reading?
4. What theatrical device is used to bring Eve onto the stage?
5. Back in the Sunday School class, what does a girl tell preacher Deshee that Adam and Eve did?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is God told that the moon is melting?
2. What does Cain look like?
3. What is unique about THE GREEN PASTURES for its day?
4. What is the disagreement God and Noah have over the provisions for the ark?
5. What are the circumstances for Cain meeting his future wife?
6. Why does Adam appear to be a bit puzzled when he is first seen?
7. At what point does Noah become aware that he is talking to God?
8. What does Zeba remember when Cain the Sixth comes to poke fun at Noah and his ark?
9. After 300 or 400 years, what does God decide to do and why?
10. How does Noah describe the condition of mankind on Earth?
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, Costuming in THE GREEN PASTURES. Going from the Cherubs to the adult angels to the unnamed Archangel to Gabriel and, finally, to God, discuss how costuming makes clear the relative ranks of the individual characters.
Essay Topic 2
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 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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