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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: The Script, pages 75-100.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What became of William Tallis' second wife?
(a) She was persecuted for being Jewish and was killed.
(b) She committed suicide after Mr. Tallis died.
(c) She died from cancer.
(d) She ran off with another man.

2. How does the narrator characterize the scientists from New Zealand?
(a) They are nothing special, and are quiet and humane.
(b) They were hand-selected as the most intelligent of mankind.
(c) They are extraordinarily physically fit, which will serve them well in their travels.
(d) They are petty and jealous, and given to fighting.

3. What is Rosie's career aspiration?
(a) Painter.
(b) Producer.
(c) Singer and actress.
(d) Writer.

4. What does the congregation chant as the babies are sacrificed?
(a) Glory Be to God and All Above.
(b) Hallelujah We Are Saved.
(c) Glory to Belial.
(d) All Hail Wickedness.

5. Who comforts Polly when her baby is being taken to be killed?
(a) Miss Ethel Hook.
(b) Loola.
(c) Chief.
(d) The Arch Vicar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Bob Briggs' wife?

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

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

5. Which book does Dr. Poole save from the book burning ordered by the Chief?

(see the answer key)

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