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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 does the Arch Vicar tell Dr. Poole about his scientist friends?
(a) They are all dead from gamma radiation.
(b) They were malnourished and fell to a pack of wolves.
(c) They were wounded trying to find him, and there will be no rescue.
(d) They are coming for him now, and he must make a choice as to where to go.

2. What kind of primate represents the greatest among man, according to the narrator?
(a) The lemur.
(b) The chimpanzee.
(c) The baboon.
(d) The gorilla.

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

4. For how long have the primitives been raiding gravesites?
(a) Four days.
(b) Six months.
(c) Thirty years.
(d) Two hundred years.

5. Which church member whips the mothers after the babies are sacrificed?
(a) The Satanic Science Practitioner.
(b) The Postulant.
(c) The Patriarch of Pasadena.
(d) The Arch Vicar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name for the primitives' religious leader?

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

3. William Tallis died from ___________.

4. What does the Arch Vicar believe about Belial's relationship to the atomic bomb?

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

(see the answer key)

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