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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 Miss Ethel Hook's desire, with respect to Dr. Poole?
(a) She wishes Dr. Poole would propose marriage to her.
(b) She wishes Dr. Poole would teach her more about the flora and fauna they discover.
(c) She wishes Dr. Poole would leave the team and go back to New Zealand, for his own safety.
(d) She wishes Dr. Poole would drop dead.

2. What is the reader told about how the "Ape and Essence" script appears in the novel?
(a) The Ape and Essence appearing in the novel was created from a memory of the script itself.
(b) Ape and Essence was reprinted without change or comment.
(c) The names in the script were changed for legal reasons.
(d) Ape and Essence was heavily edited to improve dialogue and story.

3. What is the name of Bob Briggs' wife?
(a) Miss Ethel Hook.
(b) Elaine.
(c) Katie.
(d) Miriam.

4. William Tallis died from ___________.
(a) A botched surgery.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) A hit-and-run car accident.
(d) Cancer of the throat.

5. 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 New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition.
(d) The Association for New Horizons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did William Tallis prefer to be buried?

2. The narrator makes an analogy between Gandhi's nonviolence and what feature of Bob Brigg's life?

3. What is the youngest gravedigger tempted by, which he must resist?

4. Who decides to drive to Cottonwood Ranch to find William Tallis?

5. What event resulted in the destruction of a majority of mankind in the screenplay?

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