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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scenes 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When J.B. and Sarah are arguing over whether God's blessings are earned or simply given, what happens to interrupt them?
(a) One child asks Sarah to put him to bed.
(b) One child asks for a story.
(c) One child asks for the wishbone.
(d) One child becomes sick.

2. The Messengers bring Sarah into the house, dirty and bruised. Where has she been?
(a) She was trapped under the wall of a collapsing building.
(b) She was in a car accident.
(c) She was beaten up by a gang member.
(d) She fell off a bridge.

3. Allegory is a form of extended ______.
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Alliteration.

4. How many of J.B.'s children are in a car that is hit by a drunk driver?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away," after all the children are dead?

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

3. Zuss says that ______ will enable J.B. to see God more clearly.

4. What book of the Old Testament are Zuss and Nickles basing their lines on at the end of Scene 2?

5. What does the First Messenger do when the Second Messenger tells J.B. and Sarah that their children are dead because of a drunk driver?

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