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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Take notes.
(c) Record with a video camera.
(d) Interview them for a news video.

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

3. When the writer uses words that begin with the same sound to get the attention of the reader, it is called what?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Dissonance.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Consonance.

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

5. How many maids wait near the table that J.B. and his family are sitting at?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Zuss condemn J.B. at the beginning of Scene 10?

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

3. Zophar, Eliphaz, and Bildad offer what type of answer to J.B.'s question about what he has done?

4. What does existentialism say about God?

5. What do the women, in Scene 8, sit on around J.B. and Sarah?

(see the answer key)

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