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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 does Mrs. Noah want her sons to do?

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

3. Who does God select to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and into the land of Canaan?

4. How is the King of Babylon announced to the court?

5. When God appears to Noah on the deck, what does he say?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does God introduce himself to Hezdrel when he goes back to Earth?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Gabriel say about God and why he will not simply destroy all men?

7. What is happening on the ark after Noah and his family have been on board for a long time?

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

9. Back in heaven, what is God pondering?

10. What does God say he will give Moses to make Pharaoh let the people leave 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, 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 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, The Children in THE GREEN PASTURES. Discuss the use of children as a dramatic device to set up the plot of THE GREEN PASTURES. Note that the children are stereotypical of children in general rather than as racial caricatures. Include examples of incessant questions, fidgeting in Sunday School, and angelic children misbehaving in the heavenly fish fry.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic,The Use of Music in THE GREEN PASTURES. If possible listen to the music from a DVD of the movie made in 1936 during the Great Depression. Discuss the quality of the music, the choices of the songs, and the impact of the choir as a soundtrack for both the stage play and the movie.

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