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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 does the narrator of "Tallis" believe that Gandhi was assassinated?
(a) Gandhi believed only in people, and not in art or politics.
(b) Gandhi was a political animal, and he paid the price.
(c) Gandhi's followers realized how self-centered he was.
(d) He soundly rejected the real people in favor of nationalization.

2. Why is Bob Briggs in financial trouble?
(a) His home was recently robbed.
(b) He owes back taxes.
(c) He has made a series of poor investments.
(d) He has accrued gambling debts.

3. For how long have the primitives been raiding gravesites?
(a) Four days.
(b) Six months.
(c) Two hundred years.
(d) Thirty years.

4. What is the name for the team of scientists at the heart of Ape and Essence?
(a) The Post-War Analysis Committee.
(b) The New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition.
(c) The Association for New Horizons.
(d) The California Knowledge Project.

5. How do the primitives explain the men's propensity to hit women?
(a) Women are possessed by Belial.
(b) Men are possessed by Belial.
(c) Women need to be toughened up to survive in the wilderness.
(d) Women deserve beatings for their inherent wickedness.

Short Answer Questions

1. William Tallis is from ____________.

2. Which is NOT part of the ceremony held to safeguard against having deformed babies?

3. What does Mrs. Coulton believe about how the narrator and William Tallis might have gotten along?

4. William Tallis died from ___________.

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

(see the answer key)

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