View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God tell Gabriel he is thinking about?

2. Where does God go to talk to Hezdrel?

3. Back in heaven, what is God doing?

4. What land do Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob declare as the best property on earth?

5. How many thunderbolts has Gabriel counted in the morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does God say he will give Moses to make Pharaoh let the people leave Egypt?

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

3. When Noah tells Shem to let a dove loose, what does he say about his condition?

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

5. What do the cleaning women suppose about God and his austere office?

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

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

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

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

10. When God appears in the Babylonian court, what does he say?

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 Genuine sense of Religion in THE GREEN PASTURES. Compare the religious sense a reader or audience member gets from THE GREEN PASTURES as opposed to some of the overblown biblical epics Hollywood has made in the past. What is the evidence within the play that suggests a deep religious faith?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 601 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample