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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 Babylonian Court look like?

2. Where does God go to talk to Hezdrel?

3. What does God hear every time Hosea passes by his office?

4. What does Moses say about seeing the Promised Land?

5. What is God doing to the earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does God say he does not like Hosea?

2. Why is God happy as Noah, his family, and the animals leave the ark?

3. What does Gabriel say about God and why he will not simply destroy all men?

4. How are the wild festivities of the Babylonian court interrupted?

5. Back in heaven, what is God pondering?

6. What is happening on Earth as the play comes to an end?

7. What does Ham discover when he throws the sounding line over the side of the ark?

8. How does God introduce himself to Hezdrel when he goes back to Earth?

9. What message does Hezdrel ask God to give to the people waiting in the hills?

10. Back in Sunday School, what does the audience hear preacher Deshee tell the children?

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 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 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, Two Different Views of God in THE GREEN PASTURES. Discuss the vengeful nature of God in the first part of the play--expulsion from the garden, the flood, the deaths of Egypt's first born, the destruction of Jericho, etc. Part two of the essay includes Hezdrel's view of God and God's smile as Jesus is being crucified.

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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