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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Bildad jeers at J.B.'s claim to what?
(a) Luck.
(b) Faith.
(c) Blessings.
(d) Innocence.
2. How many aspects of human existence is this play an allegory about?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Four.
3. Why does Zuss condemn J.B. at the beginning of Scene 10?
(a) Because he's too peaceful.
(b) Because he simply won't give up.
(c) Because he wasn't giving in to God at all.
(d) Because he doesn't have true faith.
4. The women, in Scene 8, believe that the skin represents what?
(a) What we can see.
(b) What we know.
(c) What we can feel.
(d) What we can observe.
5. Eliphaz says that choices are from where?
(a) Primal instincts.
(b) The subconscious.
(c) The conscious.
(d) Societal knowledge.
6. Nickles and Zuss both lose what at the beginning of Scene 10?
(a) Their masks.
(b) Their ideas.
(c) Their roles.
(d) Their tempers.
7. When Nickles asks J.B. if he knows what happens at the end, J.B. says what?
(a) That he doesn't know anything.
(b) That there is no end.
(c) That only God knows everything.
(d) That this is a new beginning.
8. The Distant Voice asks J.B. why he thinks he is worthy to confront and _______ the creator of the universe.
(a) Question.
(b) Berate.
(c) Plead with.
(d) Speak to.
9. Why does Sarah leave J.B.?
(a) Because he reminds her of the children.
(b) Because he continues in his beliefs.
(c) Because he is covered with sores.
(d) Because he believes her to be guilty of sin.
10. When Zuss and Nickles put on their masks at the end of Scene 7, what is the emotion they feel towards the expanse of God and the depth of his knowledge?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Resentment.
(c) Loathing.
(d) Fear.
11. Bildad says that justice will come when?
(a) When it comes.
(b) At the end of the earth.
(c) In the lifetime of one man.
(d) At the end of time.
12. Why does J.B. apologize to Zophar, Eliphaz, and Bildad?
(a) For how he looks.
(b) For his faith.
(c) For not having anything to offer them.
(d) For not having a place for them to sit.
13. Right before the Distant Voice quotes God's lines from the Bible, what problem is Nickles having with his mask?
(a) He cannot put it on.
(b) He cannot keep ahold of it.
(c) He cannot see through it.
(d) He cannot find it.
14. When Zuss and Nickles are able to put their masks on again in Scene 7, they become what?
(a) Instruments of God's wrath.
(b) Instruments of God's wisdom.
(c) Instruments of Satan's wrath.
(d) Instruments of the masks.
15. Scene 7 echoes the scene in the biblical story of Job, in which God points out that Job has done exactly as he _______.
(a) Expected.
(b) Likes.
(c) Wanted.
(d) Predicted.
Short Answer Questions
1. Nickles' being unable to find his mask represents the helplessness of humans when we are not able to use God for what?
2. Who urges J.B. to take the new life that is being offered to him?
3. Eliphaz says that guilt is what?
4. After arguing about the value of suffering, what does Nickles challenge Zuss to do?
5. Nickles says that the show of power with the Distant Voice and the wind means what to a man who has lost everything?
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