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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. Why does God refuse Gabriel's offer of more thunderbolts?
2. Who is Hezdrel?
3. When God appears to Noah on the deck, what does he say?
4. What is Hezdrel carrying when his soldiers come to him?
5. Who enters and tells everyone to stop the music and dancing?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where is Moses and what is he doing when God comes looking for him?
2. What is Moses doing when Abraham suggest he is the right one to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt?
3. How are the wild festivities of the Babylonian court interrupted?
4. What does Moses tell God is the best trick he has ever seen?
5. What does Moses say to Pharaoh just before the last trick is performed?
6. Why does Joshua lead the Hebrews across the River Jordan?
7. What does Gabriel say about God and why he will not simply destroy all men?
8. Back in Sunday School, what does the audience hear preacher Deshee tell the children?
9. What do the cleaning women suppose about God and his austere office?
10. When Noah tells Shem to let a dove loose, what does he say about his condition?
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 Concept of Sin in THE GREEN PASTURES. Select scenes that deal with sin in the play [e.g., Noah's description of the people's behavior and Zeba's behavior or Cain the Sixth's character] to discuss the overt human actions looked upon as sin in the play. Include how God prohibits dancing on the moon by declaring it a sin.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, From THE GREEN PASTURES to PRECIOUS: How the Entertainment Industry Helped Change the Concept of Black Culture. You may need to do a bit of research on stage and film dramas which gradually integrated black characters into mainstream drama, doing away with the stereotypical depictions of the past.
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