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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theatrical device is used to bring Eve onto the stage?
(a) the curtain closes and reopens.
(b) the lights dim and come back up again.
(c) a smoke bomb goes off.
(d) a trap door lifts her out onto the stage.

2. What is the setting for the opening scene of the play?
(a) a Baptist Sunday School.
(b) a big reunion in Heaven.
(c) the creation of the Earth.
(d) a Southern African American church social.

3. What kind of music accompanies the dialog and action of the play?
(a) New Orleans jazz.
(b) pipe organ music.
(c) old Negro spirituals.
(d) banjo music.

4. Where is heaven located?
(a) on the banks of the Mississippi.
(b) everywhere, except where Satan is.
(c) under a huge apple tree.
(d) floating on a big cloud.

5. How is this Adam different from the story in the Bible?
(a) he has wings like the angels.
(b) he is short and ugly.
(c) he is wearing work clothes.
(d) he is accompanied by several women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who announces the approach of God?

2. How does preacher Deshee begin his lesson?

3. What are the cherubs doing at the fish fry?

4. What does Carlisle want to know about God?

5. What does preacher Deshee call Cain?

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