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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nickles says that the real reason for suffering is to learn that everything ends in what?
(a) Death and dirt.
(b) Death and emptiness.
(c) Death and sorrow.
(d) Death and pity.

2. Existentialism says that the sum total of existence is what human beings _______.
(a) Complete.
(b) Feel.
(c) Live.
(d) Experience.

3. The name "Zuss" resembles what god from Ancient Greece?
(a) Zussnice.
(b) Zusstifer.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Zathena.

4. According to the allegory this play represents, human life is lived according to what?
(a) Man's will.
(b) Man's pleasures.
(c) God's will.
(d) God's pleasures.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss, in the Prologue, say that the audience is what?

2. How many meanings does an allegorical story have?

3. When Nickles and Zuss are saying their lines, who says God's first line?

4. Some people say that J.B. is lucky, but J.B. attributes his "luck" to what?

5. The scene between the family shows the _____ between J.B. and Sarah about their beliefs.

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