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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Go Down Death—A Funeral Sermon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the sermon in 'Go Down Death' suggest the dead are not?
(a) Deceased.
(b) Alive.
(c) Sinners.
(d) Free.

2. What does the speaker in 'Listen, Lord' say God rides on?
(a) A cloud.
(b) A lightening bolt.
(c) Air.
(d) A horse.

3. In 'Listen, Lord,' what does Johnson write that the preacher should be able to look through ?
(a) The telescope of truth.
(b) The telescope of death.
(c) The telescope of eternity.
(d) The telescope of clarity.

4. What does the first stanza of 'The Prodigal Son' claim men are lacking in combat?
(a) Power and size.
(b) Faith.
(c) Technique.
(d) Armor.

5. In 'The Creation' what does God roll in his hand in the fourth stanza?
(a) Light.
(b) Mud.
(c) Clay.
(d) Darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which biblical story is 'The Prodigal Son' based on?

2. What is the poem 'The Creation' about?

3. In 'The Prodigal Son,' what are the people in the city like?

4. In the third stanza of 'The Prodigal Son,', one of the man's sons approaches him with a question. Which son approaches?

5. How does God bring man to life in the last stanza of 'The Creation'?

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