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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Zuss and Nickles put on their masks at the end of Scene 7, what is the emotion they feel towards the expanse of God and the depth of his knowledge?
(a) Resentment.
(b) Loathing.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Fear.

2. Where does Sarah believe that blessings come from?
(a) The Church.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Faith.
(d) God.

3. Nickles and Zuss both lose what at the beginning of Scene 10?
(a) Their ideas.
(b) Their masks.
(c) Their roles.
(d) Their tempers.

4. Nickles says that the real reason for suffering is to learn that everything ends in what?
(a) Death and emptiness.
(b) Death and pity.
(c) Death and sorrow.
(d) Death and dirt.

5. Bildad says that justice will come when?
(a) At the end of time.
(b) In the lifetime of one man.
(c) At the end of the earth.
(d) When it comes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word characterizes Zuss' and Nickles' thoughts about J.B.'s acting abilities?

2. When Zuss and Nickles are able to put their masks on again in Scene 7, they become what?

3. Sarah compares their children to J.B., saying that they both show gratitude the way a woman does what?

4. Why does Nickles think that J.B. will not take his life back?

5. When J.B. and Sarah both pray for sleep, the women recall the death of Sarah and J.B.'s children and wonder whether Sarah will do what?

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