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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: The Script, pages 100-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The novel begins on what important day?
(a) The day Gandhi was assassinated.
(b) The day John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
(c) The day World War II formally ended.
(d) The day the U.S. stock market crashed.

2. What does the congregation chant as the babies are sacrificed?
(a) All Hail Wickedness.
(b) Hallelujah We Are Saved.
(c) Glory Be to God and All Above.
(d) Glory to Belial.

3. What does the Arch Vicar blame for famine and war?
(a) Greed.
(b) Overpopulation.
(c) Drug use.
(d) A failure to understand history.

4. Loola notes that Dr. Poole is different from the primitive men in what way?
(a) He expresses contempt for deformed babies.
(b) He is a man of action rather than words.
(c) He likes to talk to her.
(d) He finds no value in books.

5. How can Dr. Poole's emotions at seeing the mating rituals be best described?
(a) Excited, yet revolted.
(b) Proud.
(c) Nauseated.
(d) Scientifically curious.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dr. Poole react to Polly's child being killed?

2. Who orders all the mothers to the "place of shame"?

3. What surprises Chief about Dr. Poole's admission that he arrived on a boat?

4. What is the name of the scientists' ship in Ape and Essence?

5. What is the occupation of Bob Briggs?

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