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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nickles want to do when he climbs down the ladder?
(a) Laugh at Sarah and her faith.
(b) Help J.B. understand what is occurring.
(c) Laugh at J.B. and his faith.
(d) Help Sarah understand what is occurring.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) Snap pictures.
(b) Record with a video camera.
(c) Take notes.
(d) Interview them for a news video.

5. Where is the story of Job found?
(a) In the Old Testament.
(b) In the Apocrapha.
(c) In the Pentateuch.
(d) In the New Testament.

6. When Zuss and Nickles put their masks on at the end of Scene 2, what do they recite?
(a) Biblical verse.
(b) Biblical poetry.
(c) Biblical commentary.
(d) Biblical titles.

7. What does Mr. Nickles sell?
(a) Ice cream.
(b) Hats.
(c) Soda.
(d) Popcorn.

8. What is J.B. and Sarah's daughter holding in her fist when she is found?
(a) A toy doll.
(b) A stuffed animal.
(c) A toy tea pot.
(d) A toy umbrella.

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

10. How does Mr. Nickles describe Job's situation?
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Hideous.
(c) Eventful.
(d) Scary.

11. 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?
(a) J.B..
(b) Zuss.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Nickles.

12. In the story of Job, Satan bets God that if God were to curse Job, Job would do what?
(a) Praise Satan.
(b) Pray to God.
(c) Pray to Satan.
(d) Curse God.

13. Whose story do Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss portray on the stage?
(a) Deborah's.
(b) Job's.
(c) Joseph's.
(d) Mary's.

14. Sarah represents what side of belief in God?
(a) Fear.
(b) Justice.
(c) Righteousness.
(d) Simple.

15. Nickles says that J.B. would play his role differently if he were what?
(a) Childless.
(b) Single.
(c) Poor.
(d) Homeless.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the allegory this play represents, human life is lived according to what?

2. J.B. sings a song that says, "To be, become, and end are all _____."

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

4. Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss, in the Prologue, describe the stage as what?

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

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