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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who orders all the mothers to the "place of shame"?
2. Who comforts Polly when her baby is being taken to be killed?
3. What does the congregation chant as the babies are sacrificed?
4. What is Loola's initial perspective on her night of sex with Dr. Poole?
5. When workers arrive to be assigned jobs for the year, what article of clothing are they given?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the circumstances of Dr. Poole's rape.
2. What is peculiar about the babies being prepared for the Purification Ceremonies?
3. Does the Arch Vicar wish for Dr. Poole to join the church? Why or why not?
4. What restrictions are placed on mating in the primitive community? What happens to those who dare to disobey?
5. List the allusions/references found in this section of the text.
6. Describe the initial entrance of the Arch Vicar.
7. What is the Arch Vicar's explanation for why his people worship Belial, all the while acknowledging the being's evilness.
8. According to the Arch Vicar, did Belial need the atomic bomb to assure the destruction of mankind?
9. Describe the events in which Dr. Poole and Loola are assigned new jobs in the primitive community.
10. What difference does the narrator make between conscience and customs?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Similar to Huxley's own Brave New World, Ape and Essence is concerned with the danger of totalitarian states. Explain how Huxley makes this fear manifest and how world events in Huxley's life encouraged Huxley to pursue cautionary tales about totalitarianism.
Essay Topic 2
Explain how the back story and plot points of the script "Ape and Essence" reveal the author's own fears about the threat of nuclear war and annihilation.
Essay Topic 3
Ape and Essence presents a dystopic view of the future. What is a dystopia? What are the features of such a place? What specific aspects of Ape and Essence are dystopic? Why might an author depict such a dystopia?
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