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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. To Zuss and Nickles, J.B. is playing a role in deciding the argument between what two entities?
(a) Good and evil.
(b) Praise and thanks.
(c) Fear and faith.
(d) God and Satan.

2. There are two traditional aspects of man's relationship with God as portrayed in the story. The first is ______ in God's love.
(a) Faith.
(b) Certainty.
(c) Joy.
(d) Belief.

3. Where does Sarah believe that blessings come from?
(a) God.
(b) Faith.
(c) The Church.
(d) Heaven.

4. What does Nickles want to do when he climbs down the ladder?
(a) Laugh at J.B. and his faith.
(b) Help Sarah understand what is occurring.
(c) Help J.B. understand what is occurring.
(d) Laugh at Sarah and her faith.

5. What does Sarah think the two soldiers have for her and J.B.?
(a) A medal for their son.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A letter from their son.
(d) A message from their son.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many maids wait near the table that J.B. and his family are sitting at?

2. How does Mr. Nickles describe Job's situation?

3. Where is the Prologue set?

4. The scene between the family shows the _____ between J.B. and Sarah about their beliefs.

5. Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss, in the Prologue, say that the audience is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Sarah and J.B. let the drunken soldiers into their home?

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

3. How do the states of faith and fear represent the traditional state of mankind?

4. What is Zuss' answer to why J.B. has to suffer?

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

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

7. When J.B. says that he called God, not the Three Comforters, what is their answer?

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

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

10. What is Sarah suggesting when she says that they "blow on the coal of the heart?"

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