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

2. In the beginning of the screenplay, the narrator warns that "all too often" Art takes Nature and __________.
(a) Manufactures only the ludicrous.
(b) Crafts only the wicked.
(c) Produces only the sublime.
(d) Denies all but the lowest organisms.

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

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

5. Who decides to drive to Cottonwood Ranch to find William Tallis?
(a) The narrator and Bob Briggs.
(b) The narrator, Bob Briggs, and Lou Lublin.
(c) The narrator only.
(d) Bob Briggs only.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Bob Briggs in financial trouble?

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

3. How does Loola feel about the beating of the young woman at the hands of the primitives' religious leader?

4. What derogatory name do primitive men call the primitive women who bear deformed babies?

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

(see the answer key)

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