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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Nickles sell?
(a) Soda.
(b) Ice cream.
(c) Hats.
(d) Popcorn.

2. When J.B. and Sarah are arguing over whether God's blessings are earned or simply given, what happens to interrupt them?
(a) One child asks Sarah to put him to bed.
(b) One child becomes sick.
(c) One child asks for the wishbone.
(d) One child asks for a story.

3. According to the allegory this play represents, human life is lived according to what?
(a) God's pleasures.
(b) God's will.
(c) Man's will.
(d) Man's pleasures.

4. Whose story do Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss portray on the stage?
(a) Deborah's.
(b) Job's.
(c) Joseph's.
(d) Mary's.

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

6. How does Mr. Nickles describe Job's situation?
(a) Scary.
(b) Hideous.
(c) Eventful.
(d) Ridiculous.

7. Nickles and Zuss are what type of characters?
(a) Antagonists.
(b) Scenic.
(c) Narrators.
(d) Protagonists.

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

9. Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss, in the Prologue, describe the stage as what?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Hell.
(c) On the ground.
(d) In the sky.

10. Sarah sings a song to the children that wonders what?
(a) Where prayers go when they are made.
(b) Where wishes go once they are wished.
(c) Where the days go when they're over.
(d) Where the sun goes when it goes down.

11. Existentialism says that life is mainly full of what?
(a) Heartache.
(b) Trials.
(c) Pain.
(d) Suffering.

12. Where is the Prologue set?
(a) In a football stadium.
(b) At a ball game.
(c) In a circus tent.
(d) At a concessions stand.

13. In the Prologue, man is compared to a wingless, sightless insect that does what?
(a) Slams itself into a windshield.
(b) Gets squashed by the boot of someone larger.
(c) Lands and gets run over by a car.
(d) Bangs itself against a window pane.

14. What does Nickles want to do when he climbs down the ladder?
(a) Laugh at Sarah and her faith.
(b) Help Sarah understand what is occurring.
(c) Laugh at J.B. and his faith.
(d) Help J.B. understand what is occurring.

15. Sarah says that if they forget God, God will do what?
(a) Leave them.
(b) Remove his blessings.
(c) Forget them.
(d) Make them suffer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The name "Zuss" resembles what god from Ancient Greece?

2. At the beginning of Scene 2, what do Zuss and Nickles remove?

3. How many of J.B.'s children are in a car that is hit by a drunk driver?

4. Nickles says that the real reason for suffering is to learn that everything ends in what?

5. Why do J.B. and Sarah wait to call the police?

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