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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The name "Zuss" resembles what god from Ancient Greece?
(a) Zussnice.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Zathena.
(d) Zusstifer.

2. At the end of Scene 2, after Zuss and Nickles quote lines, the lights change and the audience is taken where?
(a) To a funeral.
(b) To the scene of an accident.
(c) Back to the dining room table.
(d) To a church.

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

4. When Nickles and Zuss are saying their lines, who says God's first line?
(a) Another actor.
(b) A Distant Voice.
(c) An audience member.
(d) Nickles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sarah and J.B. invite the soldiers into the house, where do they go to sit and talk?

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

3. Before Zuss can shout out his faith in J.B.'s faith, Nickles asks him what question?

4. The second traditional aspect of man's relationship with God is fear of His _________.

5. Who is the Distant Voice meant to represent?

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