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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. What is the name for the primitives' religious leader?
(a) Vessel of the Unholy Spirit.
(b) The Satanic Science Practitioner.
(c) Book Eater.
(d) Right Hand of Belial.

2. At which location is Chief presented with a necklace made of bones?
(a) The Cocktail Bar.
(b) Lincoln Park.
(c) The Observatory.
(d) Pershing Square.

3. What is Loola's nickname for Dr. Poole?
(a) Pooh Bear.
(b) Poolie.
(c) Alfie.
(d) Doc.

4. What is the name of Loola's friend who recently gave birth to a deformed baby?
(a) Emily.
(b) Polly.
(c) Flossie.
(d) Ethel.

5. Why does the narrator of "Tallis" believe that Gandhi was assassinated?
(a) Gandhi believed only in people, and not in art or politics.
(b) Gandhi was a political animal, and he paid the price.
(c) He soundly rejected the real people in favor of nationalization.
(d) Gandhi's followers realized how self-centered he was.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rosie's career aspiration?

2. Which church member whips the mothers after the babies are sacrificed?

3. What is the reader told about how the "Ape and Essence" script appears in the novel?

4. The deformed babies in the Cocktail Bar were all born between what dates?

5. Why was a gravedigger subjected to a punishment of twenty-five lashes?

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