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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the modern day religion closest to existentialism?

2. What are Zuss and Nickles holding while they watch Sarah and J.B. realize their son is dead?

3. What does Sarah want the children, at dinner, to do more thoroughly?

4. The name "Zuss" resembles what god from Ancient Greece?

5. J.B. represents what side of belief in God?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story of Job about?

2. How does Scene 2 reinforce the idea that this play, and the biblical story, are allegories?

3. Who is Mr. Zuss?

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

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

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

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

8. What do J.B. and Sarah feel, even when they sleep?

9. 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?

10. What is Sarah holding in her hand when she returns to J.B., and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the importance of flowers in this play? What is their symbolic meaning? Use the play to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

What role do masks have in the play? What do they symbolize, and what is the importance of taking them on and off? Use examples from the play to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss whether the existence of God is beyond debate for the characters. Compare and contrast at least three different character's views on the issue, and use examples from the play to support your answers.

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