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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: The Script, pages 50-75.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The lobby of the Cocktail Bar is filled with which group of people?
(a) Gravediggers and criminals.
(b) Religious leaders and the chorus of youths.
(c) Men and their healthy babies.
(d) Women and their deformed babies.

2. How does Dr. Poole convince the gravediggers to spare him from being buried alive?
(a) He offers to teach them to grow better crops.
(b) He gives them several pieces of jewelry.
(c) He offers to give his boat to them.
(d) He offers to fix their train.

3. How does the narrator characterize the scientists from New Zealand?
(a) They were hand-selected as the most intelligent of mankind.
(b) They are petty and jealous, and given to fighting.
(c) They are extraordinarily physically fit, which will serve them well in their travels.
(d) They are nothing special, and are quiet and humane.

4. What is the name for the primitives' religious leader?
(a) The Satanic Science Practitioner.
(b) Vessel of the Unholy Spirit.
(c) Right Hand of Belial.
(d) Book Eater.

5. In the human condition, what does fear NOT cast out, according to the narrator?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Desperation.
(d) Goodness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Miss Ethel Hook's desire, with respect to Dr. Poole?

2. Why does Dr. Poole claim he cannot fix the Chief's train?

3. Bob fears Elaine is cheating on him with which man?

4. On what date do the explorer-scientists set out from New Zealand?

5. At which location is Chief presented with a necklace made of bones?

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