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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 Pharaoh's throne room look like?
2. What does God hear every time Hosea passes by his office?
3. What is the choir singing that makes God smile at the end of the play?
4. What other character of the play is acted by the same person as Hezdrel?
5. What happens after Moses and Aaron remove the tricks when Pharaoh says he will let the children of Israel go?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Moses say to Pharaoh just before the last trick is performed?
2. What does God say he will give Moses to make Pharaoh let the people leave Egypt?
3. Back in Sunday School, what does the audience hear preacher Deshee tell the children?
4. What message does Hezdrel ask God to give to the people waiting in the hills?
5. Why does God say he does not like Hosea?
6. What do the cleaning women suppose about God and his austere office?
7. What is happening on the ark after Noah and his family have been on board for a long time?
8. How are the wild festivities of the Babylonian court interrupted?
9. Back in heaven, what is God pondering?
10. Why does Joshua lead the Hebrews across the River Jordan?
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, 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, Gabriel and His Trumpet in THE GREEN PASTURES. First, explain the symbolic meaning of Gabriel's blowing his trumpet from a religious point of view. Point out the times in the play when God cautions Gabriel about playing his trumpet. Note that Gabriel is interested in the music, but also remains aware that is trumpet playing signals the end of mankind.
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