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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Canterbury scientists ultimately decide to do about Dr. Poole?
(a) Kill him.
(b) Air bomb the entire area.
(c) Leave him.
(d) Stage a military rescue.

2. How does the Arch Vicar respond when Dr. Poole expresses horror at the sight of blood at the sacrifice of the babies?
(a) The blood represents the demons leaving the baby's body.
(b) Dr. Poole needs to be a man and toughen up.
(c) The Arch Vicar hurries him away and agrees that it is a terrible sight.
(d) Dr. Poole's own religion is a history full of bloodshed.

3. What explanation does the Arch Vicar have for his community's restricted mating patterns?
(a) It is necessary for survival.
(b) It is the Law of Belial.
(c) It is due to excessive gamma radiation.
(d) It is due to the powerful influence of the Hots community.

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

5. What injures Miss Ethel Hook when she goes to look for Dr. Poole?
(a) Malnutrition.
(b) A poisonous snake.
(c) Gamma radiation.
(d) An arrow shot by a primitive.

6. Loola notes that Dr. Poole is different from the primitive men in what way?
(a) He finds no value in books.
(b) He likes to talk to her.
(c) He expresses contempt for deformed babies.
(d) He is a man of action rather than words.

7. What job is given to Dr. Poole in the primitive community?
(a) Gravedigger Manager.
(b) Robotics Technician.
(c) High Altar Supplicant.
(d) Assistant to the Director of Food Production.

8. What injures Dr. Cudworth when he goes to look for Dr. Poole?
(a) Malnutrition.
(b) An arrow shot by a primitive.
(c) A poisonous snake.
(d) Gamma radiation.

9. How long has it taken for the primitive community to establish their pattern of mating rituals?
(a) Two hundred years.
(b) Two generations.
(c) One year.
(d) Forty days and nights.

10. Which, according to the script's narrator, is not one of the "fruits of the ape-mind"?
(a) Joy.
(b) Restlessness.
(c) Hate.
(d) Misery.

11. The Hots community has what relationship to the government of the primitives?
(a) The Hots are secretly led by the government, and so secretly follow its orders.
(b) The Hots cower in front of the government and will honor any request.
(c) The Hots community does not honor any government edicts or demands.
(d) The Hots benefit financially from following governmental orders.

12. Where are the Arch Vicar's books kept?
(a) The Seminary.
(b) The Unholy of Unholies.
(c) The Baker's Store.
(d) The High Altar.

13. What advantage does the Arch Vicar see for an unmutated male to join his church?
(a) The church will continue to protect the man from mutation.
(b) The church will instill values of hard work and friendship.
(c) The church will greatly add to the probability that the man sires a healthy baby.
(d) The church will kill all lust and temptation in the man.

14. How many laborers are assigned to Dr. Poole in his job?
(a) None.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Four.
(d) Two hundred.

15. 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 would have degraded mankind with or without the bomb.
(c) The bomb was essential for Belial to degrade mankind.
(d) Belial personally engineered the bomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what university is Dr. Poole assigned?

2. What is the reason that sex has become seasonal for the primitive community?

3. When Loola is assigned to her new job, who acts as a comforting friend and confidante?

4. What emotion best describes Dr. Poole's state of mind after the mating rituals?

5. In the Arch Vicar's religion, how is procreation regulated?

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