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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. 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.

2. What is the foundation of modern life to the narrator?
(a) Joy.
(b) Fear.
(c) Rage.
(d) Jealousy.

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

4. Why was a gravedigger subjected to a punishment of twenty-five lashes?
(a) He stepped on a grave.
(b) He tried to run away.
(c) He argued with the leader about the best way to dig up graves.
(d) He tried to steal a corpse's ring for himself.

5. In the beginning of the screenplay, baboons have gathered in what place?
(a) A cemetery.
(b) A palace.
(c) A supermarket.
(d) A library.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Chief concerned that no women produced healthy babies this season?

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

3. What destination have the team of scientists from New Zealand chosen?

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

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

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