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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: The Script, pages 25-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the first thing to appear in the "Ape and Essence" screenplay?
(a) A gathering of baboons.
(b) The title.
(c) The ship called the Canterbury.
(d) The name of the producer.

4. What destination have the team of scientists from New Zealand chosen?
(a) Japan.
(b) California.
(c) Peru.
(d) Russia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bob fears Elaine is cheating on him with which man?

2. Why did William Tallis write "Ape and Essence"?

3. In the beginning of the screenplay, baboons have gathered in what place?

4. Who leads the team of gravediggers at the Southern California mausoleum?

5. What does Mrs. Coulton believe about how the narrator and William Tallis might have gotten along?

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