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

2. What is Polly's perspective on her deformed baby?
(a) Polly loves the child, but is willing to sacrifice it for the greater good.
(b) Polly hates the child, and feels it has earned its fate.
(c) Polly is indifferent to the child, and is not present for its sacrifice.
(d) Polly loves the child and does not want to see him killed.

3. The narrator makes an analogy between Gandhi's nonviolence and what feature of Bob Brigg's life?
(a) His writing.
(b) His adultery.
(c) His gambling.
(d) His drinking.

4. What is the name for the primitives' religious leader?
(a) Right Hand of Belial.
(b) Vessel of the Unholy Spirit.
(c) The Satanic Science Practitioner.
(d) Book Eater.

5. What is Miss Ethel Hook's desire, with respect to Dr. Poole?
(a) She wishes Dr. Poole would teach her more about the flora and fauna they discover.
(b) She wishes Dr. Poole would leave the team and go back to New Zealand, for his own safety.
(c) She wishes Dr. Poole would drop dead.
(d) She wishes Dr. Poole would propose marriage to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two concepts does the Arch Vicar blame for the fall of mankind?

2. How does Dr. Poole react to Polly's child being killed?

3. On which street corner does Chief order books to be incinerated?

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

5. In his conversation with Dr. Poole, the Arch Vicar shows himself to be an expert in which field?

(see the answer key)

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