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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scenes 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does existentialism say about God?
(a) There is no God.
(b) God makes bad things happen.
(c) God indulges in making mankind suffer.
(d) God doesn't make anything happen to mankind.

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

3. The second traditional aspect of man's relationship with God is fear of His _________.
(a) Retribution.
(b) Power.
(c) Punishment.
(d) Vengeance.

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

5. Existentialism is a philosophical movement of what century?
(a) Mid-twenty-first.
(b) Mid-eighteenth.
(c) Mid-twentieth.
(d) Mid-nineteenth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where are Zuss and Nickles when Sarah and J.B. realize their son is dead?

3. Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss, in the Prologue, describe the stage as what?

4. What is Sarah arranging on the table when she and J.B. notice two drunk soldiers across the street?

5. How many maids wait near the table that J.B. and his family are sitting at?

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