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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: The Script, pages 75-100.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who orders all the mothers to the "place of shame"?
(a) The Satanic Science Practitioner.
(b) The Arch Vicar.
(c) The Postulant.
(d) The Patriarch of Pasadena.

2. The primitives' religious leader presses a young woman about what matter, eventually beating her?
(a) The Power of Belial.
(b) The Beauty of Nature.
(c) The Suffering of Mankind.
(d) The Nature of Woman.

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

4. Why was a gravedigger subjected to a punishment of twenty-five lashes?
(a) He stepped on a grave.
(b) He tried to run away.
(c) He tried to steal a corpse's ring for himself.
(d) He argued with the leader about the best way to dig up graves.

5. What is the foundation of modern life to the narrator?
(a) Joy.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Rage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator of "Tallis" believe that Gandhi was assassinated?

2. By the time Cottonwood Ranch is visited, how long had William Tallis been dead?

3. What religion is Dr. Poole?

4. William Tallis died from ___________.

5. How does the Arch Vicar respond when Dr. Poole expresses horror at the sight of blood at the sacrifice of the babies?

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