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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: The Script, pages 50-75.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which is NOT part of the ceremony held to safeguard against having deformed babies?
(a) Women are pampered and treated to mineral baths.
(b) The Chief is presented with a token of the community's gratitude.
(c) A religious leader berates a young woman about the nature of woman.
(d) Books are burned.

3. What part of "Ape and Essence" makes Bob decide to read the entire script?
(a) Its glossy title page.
(b) The fact that it is in pristine, unopened condition.
(c) Its professional hole punches and brads.
(d) Its opening poetry.

4. What is the leashed scientist beaten with by the female baboon holding him?
(a) A candlestick.
(b) The Bible.
(c) A spatula.
(d) A riding switch.

5. On what date do the explorer-scientists set out from New Zealand?
(a) May 21, 1981.
(b) February 20, 2108.
(c) January 1, 2004.
(d) May 1, 2345.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name for the team of scientists at the heart of Ape and Essence?

3. The narrator compares the beauty of the first image on screen in "Ape and Essence" to a poem by which poet?

4. Why are the primitives unable to make clothes?

5. What is the youngest gravedigger tempted by, which he must resist?

(see the answer key)

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