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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. How many maids wait near the table that J.B. and his family are sitting at?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

2. Where is the story of Job found?
(a) In the New Testament.
(b) In the Pentateuch.
(c) In the Old Testament.
(d) In the Apocrapha.

3. J.B. says that Sarah "thinks you can choose among your _____: well you don't, you love the lot of them."
(a) Fruits.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Children.
(d) Gifts.

4. Who is the Distant Voice meant to represent?
(a) Satan.
(b) The angels.
(c) Job.
(d) God.

5. What is the name of Sarah and J.B.'s son who is off at war?
(a) Trevor.
(b) David.
(c) Jonathan.
(d) Mike.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Sarah sings her song, the children ask J.B. to do what?

2. When J.B. makes a reference to Sarah's love of flowers, he is referring to what?

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

4. J.B. refers to the regularity of morning and spring to show that God can be what?

5. Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss, in the Prologue, describe the stage as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the maids bring out the food, what do the children and J.B. say?

2. How is J.B. and Sarah's youngest daughter killed?

3. How does Nickles refer to God?

4. What does the use of shabby costumes on the Three Comforters suggest?

5. What do the group of women and the young girl do when they first arrive on the stage?

6. Why does Nickles say that J.B. would never be willing to take his life back?

7. What does Nickles think about Zuss' line, "His will, our peace?"

8. How does Sarah suggest that she and J.B. see into the darkness on the other side of the door?

9. What is similar about the argument at the end of Scene 7 between Zuss and Nickles to other arguments in the play?

10. When Sarah suggests that there will be enough light to live by, and understand by, what is she suggesting about faith?

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