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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 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.

2. What is the name of the scientists' ship in Ape and Essence?
(a) The Kiwi.
(b) The Flying Dutchman.
(c) The Worchestershire.
(d) The Canterbury.

3. 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 offers to give his boat to them.
(c) He offers to fix their train.
(d) He gives them several pieces of jewelry.

4. Which great fear does Loola confide to Dr. Poole when they first meet?
(a) She is slowly dying from radiation.
(b) She will bear a deformed baby.
(c) Chief will kill her.
(d) They will run out of food.

5. Why does Dr. Poole claim he cannot fix the Chief's train?
(a) Dr. Poole would only fix the train if the Chief released Loola.
(b) Dr. Poole does not wish to help the Chief, whom he considers evil.
(c) Dr. Poole pretends he does not know how to fix the train to provide leverage for future negotiations.
(d) Dr. Poole does not possess the necessary engineering background.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the narrator and Bob Briggs meet at the outset of the novel?

2. Why was Dr. Poole buried up to his waist by the gravediggers?

3. Why does the narrator of "Tallis" believe that Gandhi was assassinated?

4. How does Dr. Poole become separated from his team?

5. The novel begins on what important day?

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