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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. What does existentialism say about God?
(a) God doesn't make anything happen to mankind.
(b) God indulges in making mankind suffer.
(c) There is no God.
(d) God makes bad things happen.

2. The lesson of the allegory that this play represents is that we can face whatever happens with acceptance and grace. Which character represents this viewpoint?
(a) Zuss.
(b) Nickles.
(c) Sarah.
(d) J.B..

3. Nickles says that J.B. would play his role differently if he were what?
(a) Poor.
(b) Single.
(c) Homeless.
(d) Childless.

4. What is the modern day religion closest to existentialism?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Islam.

5. What word characterizes Zuss' and Nickles' thoughts about J.B.'s acting abilities?
(a) Negative.
(b) Grand.
(c) Sympathetic.
(d) Positive.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mr. Zuss says that the world is a great place, what does Mr. Nickles say it is?

2. When Zuss and Nickles put their masks on at the end of Scene 2, what do they recite?

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

4. J.B. says that when he was a kid, the light of ______ was the light of God.

5. Zuss wonders if J.B. knows that he is a(n) ______ in the story.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, in Scene 7, is Nickles angry at J.B.'s experiences?

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

3. When J.B. and Sarah try to figure out why they had children killed by a drunk driver, what does J.B. say to answer Sarah's question of why God did this to them?

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

5. What does Nickles think would make a difference in J.B.'s performance of Job?

6. When Sarah returns to J.B., what does she tell him is the reason she left him?

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

8. Why does Nickles believe that J.B. has to suffer?

9. Why does Zuss think that nothing would influence the way J.B. acts, and that certainly being poor will not influence him?

10. At the end of Scene 2, what do Zuss and Nickles do?

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