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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. Who tries to get God to remember the Hebrews?

2. Back in heaven with God looking seriously at the audience, what does Gabriel want to do?

3. What does the dove return with?

4. What does God point out to Moses?

5. Why do the cleaners think God's office is so plain and simple?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Moses say to Pharaoh just before the last trick is performed?

2. How does the playwright suggest the Head Magician of Pharaoh's court appear?

3. Why does Joshua lead the Hebrews across the River Jordan?

4. What does Moses tell God is the best trick he has ever seen?

5. Where is Moses and what is he doing when God comes looking for him?

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

7. Describe the commotion that is going on that brings Gabriel to God's office.

8. Discuss the made up character God finally goes to the window to see.

9. What does Zipporah believe when Moses says that something is keeping him where he is?

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, Dramatic License in THE GREEN PASTURES. Include in your essay characters, locations, and time that are made up by Marc Connelly to put together his drama. In your essay evaluate the probable reasons for taking such liberties with the biblical accounts.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, THE GREEN PASTURES as a Drama Ahead of Its Time. Points in your essay should include the Civil Rights situation of blacks in the 1920s, the fact that this was a Broadway play with an all black cast, and the reasons for the discrepancies between the play's Biblical concepts and what is actually found in the Bible.

Essay Topic 3

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].

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