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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the First Messenger do when the Second Messenger tells J.B. and Sarah that their children are dead because of a drunk driver?
(a) Interview them for a news video.
(b) Record with a video camera.
(c) Take notes.
(d) Snap pictures.

2. The Messengers bring Sarah into the house, dirty and bruised. Where has she been?
(a) She was trapped under the wall of a collapsing building.
(b) She fell off a bridge.
(c) She was beaten up by a gang member.
(d) She was in a car accident.

3. Nickles says that the real reason for suffering is to learn that everything ends in what?
(a) Death and emptiness.
(b) Death and sorrow.
(c) Death and dirt.
(d) Death and pity.

4. Who says "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away," after all the children are dead?
(a) Sarah.
(b) J.B.
(c) Zuss.
(d) Nickles.

5. When J.B. makes a reference to Sarah's love of flowers, he is referring to what?
(a) Their blessings.
(b) Their children.
(c) Their possessions.
(d) Their family.

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

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

8. How many children do J.B. and Sarah have?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

9. Mr. Zuss says that evil is never ______.
(a) Angelic.
(b) Pretty.
(c) Calm.
(d) Restful.

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

11. What book of the Old Testament are Zuss and Nickles basing their lines on at the end of Scene 2?
(a) Zachariah.
(b) Job.
(c) Jonah.
(d) Malichi.

12. Sarah lives her life indulging in blaming rage and what?
(a) Fearful obedience.
(b) Fearful gratitude.
(c) Faithful obedience.
(d) Fearless blessings.

13. What is the name of Sarah and J.B.'s son who is off at war?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) David.
(c) Trevor.
(d) Mike.

14. Once Nickles and Zuss have their masks on, where do they quote lines from?
(a) The Bible.
(b) History books.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Famous movies.

15. When the writer uses words that begin with the same sound to get the attention of the reader, it is called what?
(a) Consonance.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Dissonance.
(d) Analogy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sarah tells them that David's ______ are probably much dirtier than theirs.

2. What is J.B. and Sarah's daughter holding in her fist when she is found?

3. J.B. says that Sarah "thinks you can choose among your _____: well you don't, you love the lot of them."

4. At the end of Scene 2, after Zuss and Nickles quote lines, the lights change and the audience is taken where?

5. What color are the uniforms of the concession vendors?

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