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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To Zuss and Nickles, J.B. is playing a role in deciding the argument between what two entities?
(a) Praise and thanks.
(b) God and Satan.
(c) Fear and faith.
(d) Good and evil.

2. The text of the play is written in what?
(a) Tetromic pentameter.
(b) Blank verse.
(c) Choric verse.
(d) Trochaic iameter.

3. When Nickles and Zuss are saying their lines, who says God's first line?
(a) A Distant Voice.
(b) An audience member.
(c) Another actor.
(d) Nickles.

4. Before Zuss can shout out his faith in J.B.'s faith, Nickles asks him what question?
(a) Why J.B. has to suffer.
(b) Why J.B. has to experience pain.
(c) Why J.B. has to die.
(d) Why J.B. has to have faith.

5. Sarah sings a song to the children that wonders what?
(a) Where the days go when they're over.
(b) Where wishes go once they are wished.
(c) Where prayers go when they are made.
(d) Where the sun goes when it goes down.

Short Answer Questions

1. J.B. refers to the regularity of morning and spring to show that God can be what?

2. Zuss wonders if J.B. knows that he is a(n) ______ in the story.

3. In the Prologue, man is compared to a wingless, sightless insect that does what?

4. At the end of Scene 2, after Zuss and Nickles quote lines, the lights change and the audience is taken where?

5. Where does Sarah believe that blessings come from?

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