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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: The Script, pages 75-100.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what structure are the babies sacrificed?
(a) The Occasional Table.
(b) The High Altar.
(c) Vessel of the Unholy Spirit.
(d) Belial's Butcher Block.

2. By the time Cottonwood Ranch is visited, how long had William Tallis been dead?
(a) Four years.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Two days.
(d) Eighteen months.

3. Where do the narrator and Bob Briggs discover the screenplay at the heart of the novel?
(a) Outside the Studio Commissary.
(b) On the Canterbury ship.
(c) In Murcia, California.
(d) At Cottonwood Ranch.

4. The novel begins on what important day?
(a) The day Gandhi was assassinated.
(b) The day the U.S. stock market crashed.
(c) The day John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
(d) The day World War II formally ended.

5. How do the primitives explain the men's propensity to hit women?
(a) Women deserve beatings for their inherent wickedness.
(b) Women need to be toughened up to survive in the wilderness.
(c) Women are possessed by Belial.
(d) Men are possessed by Belial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the Arch Vicar's books kept?

2. What is the youngest gravedigger tempted by, which he must resist?

3. Where does the granddaughter of William Tallis live?

4. What is the first thing to appear in the "Ape and Essence" screenplay?

5. What became of William Tallis' immediate family?

(see the answer key)

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