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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. What is the name for the team of scientists at the heart of Ape and Essence?
(a) The Post-War Analysis Committee.
(b) The California Knowledge Project.
(c) The Association for New Horizons.
(d) The New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition.

2. The narrator compares the beauty of the first image on screen in "Ape and Essence" to a poem by which poet?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) W.B. Yeats.

3. What is Loola's initial perspective on her night of sex with Dr. Poole?
(a) He was a terrible lover.
(b) Given her cultural background, she is entirely indifferent.
(c) She loves him desperately.
(d) He was more fun than her other partners.

4. Near which major city do the scientists finally land?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) Belgrade.

5. What job is assigned to Loola after her job review?
(a) Director of Food Production.
(b) Chorus Singer.
(c) Midwife.
(d) Mining cemetery worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, truth without charity is not God but ___________.

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

3. What surprises Chief about Dr. Poole's admission that he arrived on a boat?

4. On what date do the explorer-scientists set out from New Zealand?

5. In the beginning of the screenplay, the narrator warns that "all too often" Art takes Nature and __________.

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