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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. What is Miss Ethel Hook's desire, with respect to Dr. Poole?
(a) She wishes Dr. Poole would drop dead.
(b) She wishes Dr. Poole would leave the team and go back to New Zealand, for his own safety.
(c) She wishes Dr. Poole would propose marriage to her.
(d) She wishes Dr. Poole would teach her more about the flora and fauna they discover.

2. How does the narrator characterize the scientists from New Zealand?
(a) They are nothing special, and are quiet and humane.
(b) They are petty and jealous, and given to fighting.
(c) They are extraordinarily physically fit, which will serve them well in their travels.
(d) They were hand-selected as the most intelligent of mankind.

3. Who kidnaps Dr. Poole?
(a) Three men.
(b) Three baboons.
(c) Miss Ethel Hook.
(d) The Chief.

4. What promise does Bob make to Rosie?
(a) Bob agrees to never visit Cottonwood Ranch again.
(b) Bob agrees to schedule a screen test for her.
(c) Bob agrees to read her feature screenplay.
(d) Bob agrees to introduce her to a powerful music executive.

5. Where do the narrator and Bob Briggs meet at the outset of the novel?
(a) The Cottonwood Ranch.
(b) The Studio Commissary.
(c) Murcia, California.
(d) The Hollywood Cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became of William Tallis' immediate family?

2. Where is Cottonwood Ranch located?

3. Which scientist is leashed by a female baboon at the beginning of the screenplay?

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

5. Why was New Zealand spared from the destruction that ravaged the rest of the planet?

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