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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss, in the Prologue, describe the stage as what?
(a) Hell.
(b) Heaven.
(c) In the sky.
(d) On the ground.
2. Zuss says that ______ will enable J.B. to see God more clearly.
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Praise.
(c) Pain.
(d) Suffering.
3. According to Mr. Zuss, why does Job not have a right to question God?
(a) Because God is God.
(b) Because he's only a man.
(c) Because God is the Creator.
(d) Because he wasn't worthy.
4. Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss, in the Prologue, say that the audience is what?
(a) Angels.
(b) The ocean.
(c) At rest.
(d) Earth.
5. How long does it take for J.B. and Sarah to call the police about their missing daughter?
(a) Nine hours.
(b) Six hours.
(c) Seven hours.
(d) Eight hours.
6. J.B.'s song at the end of Scene 1represents what?
(a) The motive of the play.
(b) The theme of the play.
(c) The mood of the play.
(d) The tone of the play.
7. After Sarah sings her song, the children ask J.B. to do what?
(a) Sing the same song.
(b) Put the train together.
(c) Play the piano.
(d) Sing a different song.
8. What does Sarah want the children, at dinner, to do more thoroughly?
(a) Fear God.
(b) Thank God.
(c) Praise God.
(d) Love God.
9. J.B. refers to the regularity of morning and spring to show that God can be what?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Benevolent.
(c) Counted upon.
(d) Helpful.
10. There are two traditional aspects of man's relationship with God as portrayed in the story. The first is ______ in God's love.
(a) Faith.
(b) Belief.
(c) Joy.
(d) Certainty.
11. When Mr. Zuss climbs the ladder, what kind of mask does he find?
(a) Restful and glorious.
(b) Restful and angelic.
(c) Beautiful and powerful.
(d) Beautiful and peaceful.
12. Existentialism is a philosophical movement of what century?
(a) Mid-eighteenth.
(b) Mid-twentieth.
(c) Mid-twenty-first.
(d) Mid-nineteenth.
13. How many maids wait near the table that J.B. and his family are sitting at?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.
14. In the Prologue, man is compared to a wingless, sightless insect that does what?
(a) Bangs itself against a window pane.
(b) Gets squashed by the boot of someone larger.
(c) Slams itself into a windshield.
(d) Lands and gets run over by a car.
15. According to the allegory this play represents, human life is lived according to what?
(a) God's pleasures.
(b) Man's will.
(c) Man's pleasures.
(d) God's will.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Mr. Zuss says that the world is a great place, what does Mr. Nickles say it is?
2. The name "Zuss" resembles what god from Ancient Greece?
3. Where are Zuss and Nickles when Sarah and J.B. realize their son is dead?
4. At the beginning of Scene 2, what do Zuss and Nickles remove?
5. What is the modern day religion closest to existentialism?
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