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

2. Whose story do Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss portray on the stage?

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

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

5. Some people say that J.B. is lucky, but J.B. attributes his "luck" to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the debate over whether J.B. knows he is an actor suggest?

2. Why is Nickles complaining in the beginning of Scene 8?

3. How do the soldiers suggest that David is dead?

4. Sarah and J.B. are arguing over what subject at Thanksgiving?

5. Who is Mr. Zuss?

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

7. What is Zophar's argument about why J.B. is guilty?

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

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

10. How would you, as a reader, sum up the whole of Scene 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In this play, what is the relationship between faith and fear? Cite specific examples from the play to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Using specific examples to support your answer, answer the following question: What is the argument and circumstances that cause Zuss to lose his temper? What does Zuss' loss of temper have to do with Nickles' loss of temper?

Essay Topic 3

Does Nickles find humans more worthy of admiration than God? Use examples from the play to support your answer.

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