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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 does the Arch Vicar believe about Belial's relationship to the atomic bomb?
(a) Belial created atomic technology, but intended it to be used as a source of limitless energy.
(b) Belial personally engineered the bomb.
(c) Belial would have degraded mankind with or without the bomb.
(d) The bomb was essential for Belial to degrade mankind.

2. How does Loola feel about the beating of the young woman at the hands of the primitives' religious leader?
(a) She feels it is all in good fun.
(b) She is indifferent, having seen the ritual dozens of times.
(c) She feels it is necessary to maintain proper discipline.
(d) She feels it is unjust and horrific.

3. What is the youngest gravedigger tempted by, which he must resist?
(a) The fine clothes of a corpse.
(b) His leader's bacon sandwich.
(c) A plump girl beside him.
(d) The large emerald ring of a corpse.

4. Why was a gravedigger subjected to a punishment of twenty-five lashes?
(a) He tried to run away.
(b) He tried to steal a corpse's ring for himself.
(c) He stepped on a grave.
(d) He argued with the leader about the best way to dig up graves.

5. According to the Arch Vicar, why do his people worship the Devil?
(a) They feed off his power and wish to be possessed by his spirit.
(b) In order to delay the horror of the inevitable for moments longer.
(c) The Devil holds the key to rational behavior and beliefs for mankind.
(d) The Devil has humanity's best interests at heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, truth without charity is not God but ___________.

2. What group of artists does Bob Briggs compare himself to in "Tallis"?

3. The Chief figure declares that he is operating under what type of government?

4. What does Dr. Schneeglock blame for Dr. Poole's lack of a fulfillment of his promise?

5. Who orders all the mothers to the "place of shame"?

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