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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarah want the children, at dinner, to do more thoroughly?
(a) Fear God.
(b) Love God.
(c) Thank God.
(d) Praise God.

2. This play, and the story of Job, are allegories for what?
(a) The human experience and philosophy.
(b) The human experience of existentialism.
(c) The human experience in relation with God.
(d) The human experience of suffering.

3. What word characterizes Zuss' and Nickles' thoughts about J.B.'s acting abilities?
(a) Grand.
(b) Sympathetic.
(c) Positive.
(d) Negative.

4. Existentialism is a philosophical movement of what century?
(a) Mid-nineteenth.
(b) Mid-twenty-first.
(c) Mid-eighteenth.
(d) Mid-twentieth.

5. Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss, in the Prologue, describe the stage as what?
(a) In the sky.
(b) Heaven.
(c) On the ground.
(d) Hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sarah says that if they forget God, God will do what?

2. The text of the play is written in what?

3. Existentialism says that life is mainly full of what?

4. Whose story do Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss portray on the stage?

5. The lesson of the allegory that this play represents is that we can face whatever happens with acceptance and grace. Which character represents this viewpoint?

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