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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 are the young people doing in the Babylonian court?

2. What does Noah tell Shem to do?

3. What does Mrs. Noah want her sons to do?

4. Who enters and tells everyone to stop the music and dancing?

5. Why does Noah tell Japheth to take the dove to the other animals?

Short Essay Questions

1. Back in heaven, what is God pondering?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is Moses doing when Abraham suggest he is the right one to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt?

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, 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, 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.

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