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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book of the Old Testament are Zuss and Nickles basing their lines on at the end of Scene 2?
(a) Zachariah.
(b) Job.
(c) Malichi.
(d) Jonah.

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

3. What makes Zuss and Nickles able to put on their masks again?
(a) They agree to finish the story they started.
(b) They agree to reverse everything that has happened.
(c) They agree to help Sarah.
(d) They agree to stay out of J.B.'s life.

4. Existentialism says that life is mainly full of what?
(a) Pain.
(b) Heartache.
(c) Suffering.
(d) Trials.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many aspects of human existence is this play an allegory about?

2. At the end of Scene 9, what does J.B. accept?

3. In Scene 7, who quotes God's lines from the Bible where he asks the devil to consider the perfection of Job's devotion?

4. How does Nickles characterize Sarah and J.B.s experiences in the play, thus far?

5. When Zuss and Nickles are arguing about the role of suffering in J.B.'s life, they are ______ to the story of Job in the Bible.

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