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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. How does Dr. Poole convince the gravediggers to spare him from being buried alive?
(a) He offers to give his boat to them.
(b) He offers to fix their train.
(c) He gives them several pieces of jewelry.
(d) He offers to teach them to grow better crops.

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

3. Who orders Dr. Poole to be buried up to his waist by the gravediggers?
(a) Chief.
(b) Flossie.
(c) Miss Ethel Hook.
(d) Loola.

4. Which scientist is leashed by a female baboon at the beginning of the screenplay?
(a) Michael Faraday.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) John "Mad Jack" Fuller.

5. Where does the granddaughter of William Tallis live?
(a) Germany.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Murcia, California.
(d) Japan.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his conversation with Dr. Poole, the Arch Vicar shows himself to be an expert in which field?

2. Which gravedigger apologizes to Dr. Poole by claiming that burying Dr. Poole was done only for fun?

3. How does Loola feel about the beating of the young woman at the hands of the primitives' religious leader?

4. The primitives' religious leader presses a young woman about what matter, eventually beating her?

5. William Tallis is from ____________.

(see the answer key)

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