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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. Who is living on Tallis' Cottonwood Ranch when it is visited by the filmmaker(s)?
(a) The Briggs family.
(b) The Tallis family.
(c) The Lublin family.
(d) The Coulton family.

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

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

4. How is Chief able to keep a tight rein on Dr. Poole after meeting him?
(a) Dr. Poole is administered an intoxicating drug.
(b) Dr. Poole is handcuffed.
(c) Dr. Poole's kneecaps are broken.
(d) Dr. Poole is strapped to a table which is carried around.

5. William Tallis is from ____________.
(a) Bakersfield, California.
(b) Murcia, California.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) London, England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did William Tallis write "Ape and Essence"?

2. What is the subject of the song the female baboon sings?

3. According to the narrator, truth without charity is not God but ___________.

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

5. On which street corner does Chief order books to be incinerated?

(see the answer key)

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