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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. What became of William Tallis' immediate family?
(a) William Tallis never had a family.
(b) They died in World War I.
(c) They died in a car accident.
(d) They moved away after Mr. Tallis died.

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

3. The primitives' religious leader presses a young woman about what matter, eventually beating her?
(a) The Beauty of Nature.
(b) The Nature of Woman.
(c) The Power of Belial.
(d) The Suffering of Mankind.

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

5. What group of artists does Bob Briggs compare himself to in "Tallis"?
(a) The Impressionist Painters.
(b) The Surrealist Writers.
(c) The Baroque Composers.
(d) The Romantic Poets.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dr. Poole convince the gravediggers to spare him from being buried alive?

2. For how long have the primitives been raiding gravesites?

3. Why was Dr. Poole buried up to his waist by the gravediggers?

4. Who kidnaps Dr. Poole?

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

(see the answer key)

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