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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Creation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the poem 'The Creation' what helps things to grow in stanza seven?
(a) Love.
(b) Rain.
(c) Farmers.
(d) God's footsteps.

2. In 'Listen, Lord,' what emotional position is the speaker in during the first stanza?
(a) A happy position.
(b) A sad position.
(c) A powerful position.
(d) A humble position

3. What is the poem 'The Creation' about?
(a) God's creation of the moon.
(b) God's creation of Earth.
(c) Noah's creation of the ark.
(d) God's creation of humans.

4. What does the 'Listen, Lord' speaker want the preacher cleaned of?
(a) Paint.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Sin.
(d) Dirt.

5. What grows in stanza seven of 'The Creation'?
(a) Man and woman.
(b) Apples.
(c) Grass, flowers and trees.
(d) Corn, tomatoes and grapes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'Listen, Lord,' what does Johnson write that the preacher should be able to look through ?

2. What does the speaker in 'Listen, Lord' say God rides on?

3. How does the speaker describe God in the poem 'Listen, Lord'?

4. How does God feel at the end of the fourth stanza of 'The Creation'?

5. Where does God throw the leftover light in the poem 'The Creation'?

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