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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. Where did William Tallis prefer to be buried?
(a) In his homeland of Germany.
(b) In the Hollywood Cemetery.
(c) In the desert.
(d) At sea.

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

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

4. By the time Cottonwood Ranch is visited, how long had William Tallis been dead?
(a) Four years.
(b) Eighteen months.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Two days.

5. What became of William Tallis' second wife?
(a) She was persecuted for being Jewish and was killed.
(b) She died from cancer.
(c) She ran off with another man.
(d) She committed suicide after Mr. Tallis died.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what was Gandhi's "great secret"?

2. According to the narrator, truth without charity is not God but ___________.

3. Who was NOT among the team of scientists from New Zealand?

4. In the beginning of the screenplay, the narrator warns that "all too often" Art takes Nature and __________.

5. Where do the narrator and Bob Briggs discover the screenplay at the heart of the novel?

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