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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Sarah arranging on the table when she and J.B. notice two drunk soldiers across the street?
(a) Napkins.
(b) Silverware.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Place settings.

3. Before Zuss can shout out his faith in J.B.'s faith, Nickles asks him what question?
(a) Why J.B. has to have faith.
(b) Why J.B. has to suffer.
(c) Why J.B. has to experience pain.
(d) Why J.B. has to die.

4. When J.B. makes a reference to Sarah's love of flowers, he is referring to what?
(a) Their possessions.
(b) Their family.
(c) Their blessings.
(d) Their children.

5. What book of the Old Testament are Zuss and Nickles basing their lines on at the end of Scene 2?
(a) Jonah.
(b) Zachariah.
(c) Malichi.
(d) Job.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is J.B.'s grace at the meal in Scene 1?

2. At the end of Scene 2, after Zuss and Nickles quote lines, the lights change and the audience is taken where?

3. When the writer uses words that begin with the same sound to get the attention of the reader, it is called what?

4. Where is the story of Job found?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What thematic statement is made by the actions in Scene 10?

2. What does Zuss tell Nickles that there is left to complete in the story, when Nickles says that there couldn't possibly be more?

3. How do the young girl and women describe the Three Comforters?

4. What do Zuss and Nickles become instruments of at the end of Scene 7?

5. What does Bildad say about J.B.'s claim of innocence?

6. Why are Zuss and Nickles unable to put on their masks in Scene 7?

7. Who is Zophar?

8. What is the conflict that J.B. and Sarah represent?

9. How does Sarah compare J.B. and the children's views of blessings?

10. Why does Sarah protest J.B.'s thoughts that God doesn't punish without cause?

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