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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nickles hear before he leaves J.B.?
(a) Someone in the garage.
(b) A telephone ring.
(c) A bell.
(d) Someone at the door.

2. What does Bildad wear?
(a) A pilot's jacket.
(b) A tuxedo.
(c) An Italian suit.
(d) A leather windbreaker.

3. Zuss says he's sick to death of the whole business and looks for the belt with what on it?
(a) Balloons.
(b) Figurines.
(c) Soda.
(d) Foam fingers.

4. Sarah doesn't believe J.B. that her children must have had some sin to be punished. She believes her children are what?
(a) Innocent bystanders.
(b) Innocent actors.
(c) Innocent victims.
(d) Innocent children.

5. Why does Zuss condemn J.B. at the beginning of Scene 10?
(a) Because he doesn't have true faith.
(b) Because he wasn't giving in to God at all.
(c) Because he's too peaceful.
(d) Because he simply won't give up.

6. The quote, "His will, our peace" comes from what author?
(a) Saint Peter.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Dante.
(d) Aristotle.

7. Zuss is angry that after being shown all of God's glory J.B. simply what?
(a) Folded.
(b) Gave in.
(c) Accepted fate.
(d) Repented.

8. Who says, "His will, our peace?"
(a) Sarah.
(b) Nickles.
(c) Zuss.
(d) J.B.

9. One of the women watching J.B. says that she has had a dream about the queen of what country?
(a) England.
(b) Wales.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Ireland.

10. How many aspects of human existence is this play an allegory about?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

11. The women, in Scene 8, believe that the skin represents what?
(a) What we can see.
(b) What we can feel.
(c) What we know.
(d) What we can observe.

12. When Nickles asks J.B. if he knows what happens at the end, J.B. says what?
(a) That only God knows everything.
(b) That this is a new beginning.
(c) That there is no end.
(d) That he doesn't know anything.

13. Zophar, Eliphaz, and Bildad offer what type of answer to J.B.'s question about what he has done?
(a) Clear.
(b) Distorted.
(c) Blurred.
(d) Enigmatic.

14. Why does J.B. apologize to Zophar, Eliphaz, and Bildad?
(a) For his faith.
(b) For not having a place for them to sit.
(c) For not having anything to offer them.
(d) For how he looks.

15. After J.B. calms God down, what does he do?
(a) Forgave himself.
(b) Forgave God.
(c) Forgave Nickles.
(d) Forgave Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Scene 7 echoes the scene in the biblical story of Job, in which God points out that Job has done exactly as he _______.

2. Nickles says that God has won the way he always wins, and searches for what?

3. The women, in Scene 8, believe that the heart is always what?

4. Who declares that J.B. has done exactly as he hoped he would, and has affirmed his faith in God?

5. The quote, "His will, our peace," comes from what book?

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