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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the babies sacrificed to appease the Devil?
(a) The Los Angeles Coliseum.
(b) An abandoned warehouse.
(c) The San Diego Zoo.
(d) The corner of Sunset and Vine.

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

3. What is the Arch Vicar's perspective on sexual intercourse?
(a) It is revolting.
(b) It is healthy.
(c) Without it, he would have no reason to go on living.
(d) He feels no emotion from sexual intercourse.

4. When workers arrive to be assigned jobs for the year, what article of clothing are they given?
(a) Swimming trunks.
(b) Hats.
(c) Badges.
(d) Aprons.

5. With respect to the strange behavior of the primitives, Dr. Poole experiences a change from which state to which state?
(a) Scientific curiosity to joy.
(b) Joy to Ecstasy.
(c) Horror to scientific curiosity.
(d) Pain to Despair.

6. In what year did William Tallis die?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1984.

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

8. What is used to kill the deformed babies?
(a) A hammer.
(b) A knife.
(c) An electric cattle prod.
(d) They are strangled.

9. Which church member actually does the killing of the babies?
(a) The Arch-Vicar.
(b) The Patriarch of Pasadena.
(c) The Satanic Science Practitioner.
(d) The Postulant.

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

11. What does the Arch Vicar tell Dr. Poole about his scientist friends?
(a) They are coming for him now, and he must make a choice as to where to go.
(b) They were malnourished and fell to a pack of wolves.
(c) They were wounded trying to find him, and there will be no rescue.
(d) They are all dead from gamma radiation.

12. According to the Arch Vicar, what does Man call Progress?
(a) The destruction of the earth.
(b) The wickedness of graverobbing.
(c) The appeasement of Belial.
(d) The enlightenment of the soul.

13. What relationship does the Arch Vicar urge for Dr. Poole with respect to the church?
(a) The Arch Vicar encourages Dr. Poole to become a full member.
(b) The Arch Vicar wishes to expel Dr. Poole from the church because of his lustful ways.
(c) The Arch Vicar thinks Dr. Poole is not enlightened enough to understand the church.
(d) The Arch Vicar thinks Dr. Poole would be a bad influence on the church.

14. When Loola is assigned to her new job, at which location does she work?
(a) The Los Angeles Coliseum.
(b) Hollywood cemetery.
(c) Silver Ore Mine.
(d) The lab of the Director of Food Production.

15. What is the reason that sex has become seasonal for the primitive community?
(a) To control the population, sex is performed during certain moon phases.
(b) Gamma radiation has interfered with female hormones.
(c) It is culturally ingrained and has no physical causation.
(d) Men are given regular injections of testosterone.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Arch Vicar, why do his people worship the Devil?

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

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

4. What is the Chief's perspective on sexual intercourse?

5. Which desert do Dr. Poole and Loola cross to escape the primitive community?

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