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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: The Script, pages 100-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the human condition, what does fear NOT cast out, according to the narrator?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Desperation.
(d) Goodness.

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

3. How does the narrator characterize the scientists from New Zealand?
(a) They are nothing special, and are quiet and humane.
(b) They were hand-selected as the most intelligent of mankind.
(c) They are petty and jealous, and given to fighting.
(d) They are extraordinarily physically fit, which will serve them well in their travels.

4. Which book does Dr. Poole save from the book burning ordered by the Chief?
(a) A volume of Shelley's poetry.
(b) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
(c) Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
(d) A collection of letters and personal essays by Marcel Proust.

5. 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 are all dead from gamma radiation.
(d) They were wounded trying to find him, and there will be no rescue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing to appear in the "Ape and Essence" screenplay?

2. How do the primitives mark women who have not produced a healthy baby during the season?

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

4. How does Dr. Poole convince the gravediggers to spare him from being buried alive?

5. The narrator compares the beauty of the first image on screen in "Ape and Essence" to a poem by which poet?

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