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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 Cain say about flinging a rock at Abel?
2. What does God do with a cigar?
3. Why does God say he has been walking the earth?
4. Back in the Sunday School class, what does a girl tell preacher Deshee that Adam and Eve did?
5. What is Cain's excuse for what he did to Abel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Cain look like?
2. What is unique about THE GREEN PASTURES for its day?
3. Where does God tell Cain to go?
4. How do the children see God in the play?
5. Describe Noah as his sons do the construction on the ark.
6. Who does the girl say she is?
7. What is God able to do with his cigar?
8. Describe the activity of the girl sitting on a tree stump when God sees her.
9. What does the ark look like as it is built?
10. What has Cain done as God comes down to 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, The Irony of THE GREEN PASTURES. Note that THE GREEN PASTURES was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama at a time in American history when the all black cast could not stay in a white hotel, eat in an upscale restaurant, and had to ride in the back of public transportation. Discuss the political irony of such a situation.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, The Ark as a Steamboat in THE GREEN PASTURES. The essay should include the experience black people in Louisiana had with water transportation in the 1920s. Discuss the steamboat ark as such a concept rather than a kind of stereotypical comedy. Conclude with ways different ethnic groups might view religious artifacts.
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