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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The women, in Scene 8, believe that the heart is always what?
(a) A mystery.
(b) Symbolic.
(c) A sign.
(d) Faithful.

2. According to the allegory this play represents, human life is lived according to what?
(a) God's pleasures.
(b) Man's pleasures.
(c) Man's will.
(d) God's will.

3. The final argument between Zuss and Nickles in Scene 7 mirrors an argument they have at the end of what scene?
(a) Scene 3.
(b) Scene 5.
(c) Scene 4.
(d) Scene 2.

4. Mr. Nickles and Mr. Zuss, in the Prologue, describe the stage as what?
(a) On the ground.
(b) Hell.
(c) Heaven.
(d) In the sky.

5. J.B. and Sarah, now that everything has been taken from them, say that even when they sleep they feel what?
(a) Pain and suffering.
(b) Deep sorrow.
(c) Desire to be better people.
(d) Eyes upon them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Zuss says that ______ will enable J.B. to see God more clearly.

2. In Scene 7, who quotes God's lines from the Bible where he asks the devil to consider the perfection of Job's devotion?

3. Nickles and Zuss are what type of characters?

4. What does existentialism say about God?

5. What book of the Old Testament are Zuss and Nickles basing their lines on at the end of Scene 2?

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