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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. Which gravedigger apologizes to Dr. Poole by claiming that burying Dr. Poole was done only for fun?
(a) Flossie.
(b) Loola.
(c) Chief.
(d) Shelley.

2. The narrator compares the beauty of the first image on screen in "Ape and Essence" to a poem by which poet?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) W.B. Yeats.
(d) Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

3. What does Dr. Poole tell Chief about why New Zealand was spared in the World War?
(a) Its citizens created a magical forcefield.
(b) Dr. Poole lies and states that most of New Zealand was destroyed.
(c) Dr. Poole refuses to admit he is from New Zealand.
(d) The country was deemed to not be of strategic value.

4. Why are the primitives unable to make clothes?
(a) There is no machinery left to make clothes.
(b) Only the Chief is allowed to wear clothes.
(c) They are religiously opposed to clothing.
(d) Cotton has changed since the radioactivity of the World War.

5. What is the reader told about how the "Ape and Essence" script appears in the novel?
(a) The names in the script were changed for legal reasons.
(b) Ape and Essence was heavily edited to improve dialogue and story.
(c) The Ape and Essence appearing in the novel was created from a memory of the script itself.
(d) Ape and Essence was reprinted without change or comment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dr. Poole become separated from his team?

2. Why does Dr. Poole claim he cannot fix the Chief's train?

3. According to the narrator, what was Gandhi's "great secret"?

4. By the time Cottonwood Ranch is visited, how long had William Tallis been dead?

5. The primitives' religious leader presses a young woman about what matter, eventually beating her?

(see the answer key)

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