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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. How much does Bob owe the government in back taxes?
(a) $150,000.
(b) $33,000.
(c) $3.67.
(d) $45.00.

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

3. What is the youngest gravedigger tempted by, which he must resist?
(a) His leader's bacon sandwich.
(b) A plump girl beside him.
(c) The large emerald ring of a corpse.
(d) The fine clothes of a corpse.

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

5. According to the narrator, truth without charity is not God but ___________.
(a) Man.
(b) An idol.
(c) The Devil.
(d) The Goddess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of primate represents the "least among man," according to the narrator?

2. What is Miss Ethel Hook's desire, with respect to Dr. Poole?

3. What is the first thing to appear in the "Ape and Essence" screenplay?

4. What is Rosie's career aspiration?

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

(see the answer key)

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