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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the congregation chant as the babies are sacrificed?
(a) Glory to Belial.
(b) Glory Be to God and All Above.
(c) Hallelujah We Are Saved.
(d) All Hail Wickedness.

3. What is the Arch Vicar's opinion of the Industrial Revolution?
(a) It represented the apex of civilization.
(b) Technology paradoxically allows Man to become closer with nature.
(c) Through technology, Man lost touch with reality.
(d) It resulted in key advances they enjoy even today.

4. How does the Arch Vicar aid Dr. Poole in seeing the mating rituals better?
(a) He orders all couples to be brought out into the moonlight.
(b) He orders the lights to be turned on.
(c) He gives him a walking tour.
(d) He gives him night-vision goggles.

5. How long does Dr. Poole feel proper food production will take in the primitive community?
(a) Five years.
(b) Fifty years.
(c) Six months.
(d) One thousand years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flossie think about Loola's relationship with Dr. Poole?

2. Who is at the very top of the religious hierarchy in the primitive community?

3. Which of the following does the Arch Vicar NOT blame for world wars?

4. Where do Dr. Poole and Loola first have sex?

5. What does the Arch Vicar believe about Belial's relationship to the atomic bomb?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Loola finally swayed to run away with Dr. Poole?

2. Describe the initial entrance of the Arch Vicar.

3. How does the poetry of Percy Shelley contribute to the development of romance between Dr. Poole and Loola?

4. What commentary does the script narrator offer about joy (as described in a poem by Shelley) and the possibility of joy in the ape-mind?

5. Provide the following characters' views on sex: the Arch Vicar, the Chief, and Dr. Poole.

6. Describe the scene, including the chanting, taking place in the Los Angeles Coliseum at the height of the Purification Ceremonies.

7. What difference does the narrator make between conscience and customs?

8. How does the Arch Vicar defend his religion's practices with respect to Dr. Poole's own religion?

9. What is the Arch Vicar's theory of history? What does this have to do with the "Order of Things"?

10. Does the Arch Vicar wish for Dr. Poole to join the church? Why or why not?

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