Ape and Essence Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 132 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Ape and Essence Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 132 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy the Ape and Essence Lesson Plans
Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Chief concerned that no women produced healthy babies this season?
(a) They will have no babies to sacrifice to the Devil.
(b) The radioactivity has likely reached lethal levels.
(c) This shows that Belial is displeased with them.
(d) This represents a dearth of much-needed manpower.

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

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

5. Why is Bob Briggs in financial trouble?
(a) He has made a series of poor investments.
(b) He owes back taxes.
(c) He has accrued gambling debts.
(d) His home was recently robbed.

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

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

8. What event resulted in the destruction of a majority of mankind in the screenplay?
(a) Overpopulation of a poisonous frog.
(b) World War Three.
(c) Robots who turned on their masters.
(d) A deadly plague.

9. What promise does Bob make to Rosie?
(a) Bob agrees to introduce her to a powerful music executive.
(b) Bob agrees to never visit Cottonwood Ranch again.
(c) Bob agrees to read her feature screenplay.
(d) Bob agrees to schedule a screen test for her.

10. What is Loola's nickname for Dr. Poole?
(a) Poolie.
(b) Doc.
(c) Pooh Bear.
(d) Alfie.

11. What is the name for the team of scientists at the heart of Ape and Essence?
(a) The Association for New Horizons.
(b) The California Knowledge Project.
(c) The New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition.
(d) The Post-War Analysis Committee.

12. Who is living on Tallis' Cottonwood Ranch when it is visited by the filmmaker(s)?
(a) The Coulton family.
(b) The Briggs family.
(c) The Tallis family.
(d) The Lublin family.

13. At which location is Chief presented with a necklace made of bones?
(a) The Observatory.
(b) Pershing Square.
(c) Lincoln Park.
(d) The Cocktail Bar.

14. What does the Chief believe about the current level of discipline in the primitive community?
(a) He does not believe in the harsh discipline exacted by the religious leaders.
(b) He believes people should be more free to pursue their own interests.
(c) As he delivers discipline himself, he is quite pleased with the level of discipline.
(d) He believes the community lacks proper discipline.

15. What became of William Tallis' second wife?
(a) She ran off with another man.
(b) She committed suicide after Mr. Tallis died.
(c) She was persecuted for being Jewish and was killed.
(d) She died from cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of primate represents the "least among man," according to the narrator?

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

3. Which scientist is leashed by a female baboon at the beginning of the screenplay?

4. How does the narrator characterize the scientists from New Zealand?

5. On which deity do the primitives blame their problems?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 618 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Ape and Essence Lesson Plans
Copyrights
BookRags
Ape and Essence from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.