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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 injures Miss Ethel Hook when she goes to look for Dr. Poole?
(a) An arrow shot by a primitive.
(b) A poisonous snake.
(c) Gamma radiation.
(d) Malnutrition.

2. With respect to the strange behavior of the primitives, Dr. Poole experiences a change from which state to which state?
(a) Horror to scientific curiosity.
(b) Pain to Despair.
(c) Scientific curiosity to joy.
(d) Joy to Ecstasy.

3. What is the reason that sex has become seasonal for the primitive community?
(a) Gamma radiation has interfered with female hormones.
(b) Men are given regular injections of testosterone.
(c) To control the population, sex is performed during certain moon phases.
(d) It is culturally ingrained and has no physical causation.

4. How are the books incinerated in the Chief's book-burning ceremony?
(a) In a baker's oven.
(b) In a large bonfire.
(c) The books are placed at regular intervals on the street and then lit individually.
(d) In the fireplace of an abandoned mansion.

5. How do the primitives explain the men's propensity to hit women?
(a) Men are possessed by Belial.
(b) Women need to be toughened up to survive in the wilderness.
(c) Women are possessed by Belial.
(d) Women deserve beatings for their inherent wickedness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Arch Vicar, why do his people worship the Devil?

2. Who comforts Polly when her baby is being taken to be killed?

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

4. What do the Canterbury scientists ultimately decide to do about Dr. Poole?

5. What is the leashed scientist beaten with by the female baboon holding him?

(see the answer key)

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