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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. What is Rosie's career aspiration?
(a) Writer.
(b) Painter.
(c) Singer and actress.
(d) Producer.

2. The primitives' religious leader presses a young woman about what matter, eventually beating her?
(a) The Power of Belial.
(b) The Nature of Woman.
(c) The Suffering of Mankind.
(d) The Beauty of Nature.

3. What is Miss Ethel Hook's desire, with respect to Dr. Poole?
(a) She wishes Dr. Poole would drop dead.
(b) She wishes Dr. Poole would leave the team and go back to New Zealand, for his own safety.
(c) She wishes Dr. Poole would teach her more about the flora and fauna they discover.
(d) She wishes Dr. Poole would propose marriage to her.

4. What is the occupation of Bob Briggs?
(a) Retired military officer.
(b) Screenwriter.
(c) Botanist.
(d) Gravedigger.

5. What is Polly's perspective on her deformed baby?
(a) Polly hates the child, and feels it has earned its fate.
(b) Polly loves the child, but is willing to sacrifice it for the greater good.
(c) Polly is indifferent to the child, and is not present for its sacrifice.
(d) Polly loves the child and does not want to see him killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Chief able to keep a tight rein on Dr. Poole after meeting him?

2. Which of the following is true about the scientists' rediscovery of the world?

3. Which is NOT part of the ceremony held to safeguard against having deformed babies?

4. What destination have the team of scientists from New Zealand chosen?

5. What derogatory name do primitive men call the primitive women who bear deformed babies?

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