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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Scene 2, what do Zuss and Nickles remove?
(a) Their costumes.
(b) Their belts.
(c) Their masks.
(d) Their uniforms.

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

3. Scene 7 echoes the scene in the biblical story of Job, in which God points out that Job has done exactly as he _______.
(a) Predicted.
(b) Likes.
(c) Expected.
(d) Wanted.

4. Eliphaz says that choices are from where?
(a) The subconscious.
(b) The conscious.
(c) Primal instincts.
(d) Societal knowledge.

5. After Zuss and Nickles put on their masks in Scene 7, what is the name of the character who speaks of Job's integrity?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Zuss.
(c) Distant Voice.
(d) God-mask.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Mr. Zuss, why does Job not have a right to question God?

3. Sarah doesn't believe J.B. that her children must have had some sin to be punished. She believes her children are what?

4. This play, and the story of Job, are allegories for what?

5. Existentialism is a philosophical movement of what century?

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