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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 is Chief concerned that no women produced healthy babies this season?
(a) This shows that Belial is displeased with them.
(b) They will have no babies to sacrifice to the Devil.
(c) This represents a dearth of much-needed manpower.
(d) The radioactivity has likely reached lethal levels.

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

3. Where do the narrator and Bob Briggs meet at the outset of the novel?
(a) The Cottonwood Ranch.
(b) The Hollywood Cemetery.
(c) The Studio Commissary.
(d) Murcia, California.

4. What derogatory name do primitive men call the primitive women who bear deformed babies?
(a) Satan's Spawn.
(b) Vessel of the Unholy Spirit.
(c) Tool of the Devil.
(d) Mistress of Belial.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bob Briggs speaks about his personal history, how does the narrator react?

2. Where does the granddaughter of William Tallis live?

3. According to the narrator, what was Gandhi's "great secret"?

4. For how long have the primitives been raiding gravesites?

5. Who orders Dr. Poole to be buried up to his waist by the gravediggers?

(see the answer key)

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