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

2. According to the Arch Vicar, what makes men into cowards, saints, and humans?
(a) Love.
(b) Technology.
(c) War.
(d) Conscience.

3. Which is NOT part of the ceremony held to safeguard against having deformed babies?
(a) A religious leader berates a young woman about the nature of woman.
(b) Women are pampered and treated to mineral baths.
(c) The Chief is presented with a token of the community's gratitude.
(d) Books are burned.

4. Why are the primitives unable to make clothes?
(a) There is no machinery left to make clothes.
(b) They are religiously opposed to clothing.
(c) Only the Chief is allowed to wear clothes.
(d) Cotton has changed since the radioactivity of the World War.

5. What does Dr. Schneeglock blame for Dr. Poole's lack of a fulfillment of his promise?
(a) Dr. Poole still lives with his mother.
(b) Dr. Poole is a gambler with significant debts.
(c) Dr. Poole is promiscuous and cannot stay with one woman.
(d) Dr. Poole's mother died when he was only a baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the scientists' ship in Ape and Essence?

2. Who orders Dr. Poole to be buried up to his waist by the gravediggers?

3. In the human condition, what does fear NOT cast out, according to the narrator?

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

5. What is the foundation of modern life to the narrator?

(see the answer key)

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