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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Zuss and Nickles put on their masks at the end of Scene 7, what is the emotion they feel towards the expanse of God and the depth of his knowledge?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Fear.
(c) Loathing.
(d) Resentment.

2. What does existentialism say about God?
(a) God doesn't make anything happen to mankind.
(b) God indulges in making mankind suffer.
(c) There is no God.
(d) God makes bad things happen.

3. Right before the Distant Voice quotes God's lines from the Bible, what problem is Nickles having with his mask?
(a) He cannot find it.
(b) He cannot keep ahold of it.
(c) He cannot see through it.
(d) He cannot put it on.

4. Nickles' being unable to find his mask represents the helplessness of humans when we are not able to use God for what?
(a) A blame for events.
(b) A healer.
(c) A comforter.
(d) An excuse for our behavior.

5. The argument of the play is that the only way to live and transcend suffering is through what?
(a) Faith in human beings.
(b) Faith and trust in God an his divine plan.
(c) Belief that there is a God and a divine plan.
(d) Prayer and obedience to God.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story of Job, Satan bets God that if God were to curse Job, Job would do what?

2. At the end of Scene 9, what does J.B. accept?

3. One of the women watching J.B. says that she has had a dream about the queen of what country?

4. Existentialism says that the sum total of existence is what human beings _______.

5. At the beginning of Scene 2, what do Zuss and Nickles remove?

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