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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Zuss says that ______ will enable J.B. to see God more clearly.
(a) Suffering.
(b) Praise.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Pain.

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

3. What are Zuss and Nickles holding while they watch Sarah and J.B. realize their son is dead?
(a) Their masks.
(b) Scepters.
(c) Scrolls.
(d) Flowers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mr. Zuss says that evil is never ______.

2. 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?

3. There are two traditional aspects of man's relationship with God as portrayed in the story. The first is ______ in God's love.

4. J.B. says that Sarah "thinks you can choose among your _____: well you don't, you love the lot of them."

5. Who says, "His will, our peace?"

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