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

2. What is the occupation of Bob Briggs?
(a) Gravedigger.
(b) Screenwriter.
(c) Botanist.
(d) Retired military officer.

3. According to the narrator, truth without charity is not God but ___________.
(a) Man.
(b) The Goddess.
(c) An idol.
(d) The Devil.

4. Near which major city do the scientists finally land?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Belgrade.
(d) San Francisco.

5. On what structure are the babies sacrificed?
(a) Vessel of the Unholy Spirit.
(b) The High Altar.
(c) The Occasional Table.
(d) Belial's Butcher Block.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name for the team of scientists at the heart of Ape and Essence?

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

3. The narrator makes an analogy between Gandhi's nonviolence and what feature of Bob Brigg's life?

4. According to the Arch Vicar, what does Man call Progress?

5. Who is the author of the movie script at the heart of the novel's story?

(see the answer key)

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