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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. In the story of Job, Satan bets God that if God were to curse Job, Job would do what?
(a) Praise Satan.
(b) Pray to Satan.
(c) Pray to God.
(d) Curse God.

2. Who says "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away," after all the children are dead?
(a) Sarah.
(b) J.B.
(c) Nickles.
(d) Zuss.

3. After coming down from their platform, how do Nickles and Zuss return to their platform?
(a) With their feet tied.
(b) With their hands tied.
(c) Arm in arm.
(d) In handcuffs.

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

5. When Mr. Zuss says that the world is a great place, what does Mr. Nickles say it is?
(a) A waste land.
(b) A garbage dump.
(c) A trash pile.
(d) A dung-heap.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is the Distant Voice meant to represent?

4. Allegory is a form of extended ______.

5. The scene between the family shows the _____ between J.B. and Sarah about their beliefs.

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