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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: The Script, pages 100-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of the screenplay, the narrator warns that "all too often" Art takes Nature and __________.
(a) Manufactures only the ludicrous.
(b) Denies all but the lowest organisms.
(c) Produces only the sublime.
(d) Crafts only the wicked.

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

3. Which is NOT part of the ceremony held to safeguard against having deformed babies?
(a) A religious leader berates a young woman about the nature of woman.
(b) Women are pampered and treated to mineral baths.
(c) The Chief is presented with a token of the community's gratitude.
(d) Books are burned.

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

5. What happens to sexually aggressive boys in the primitive community?
(a) They are castrated.
(b) They are chained in a dungeon.
(c) They are sacrificed on the high altar.
(d) Their aggression is encouraged for the good of the community.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dr. Poole convince the gravediggers to spare him from being buried alive?

2. By the time Cottonwood Ranch is visited, how long had William Tallis been dead?

3. What does Mrs. Coulton believe about how the narrator and William Tallis might have gotten along?

4. What is Loola's initial perspective on her night of sex with Dr. Poole?

5. What job is assigned to Loola after her job review?

(see the answer key)

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