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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: The Script, pages 122-152.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the first thing to appear in the "Ape and Essence" screenplay?
(a) A gathering of baboons.
(b) The title.
(c) The name of the producer.
(d) The ship called the Canterbury.

3. What is the most obvious difference between Arch Vicar's community and the Hots?
(a) The Hots do not possess a written language.
(b) The Hots have leprous skin conditions due to radiation.
(c) The Hots do not place restrictions on mating/romance.
(d) The Hots have a formal, highly controlling religious hierarchy.

4. What ritual is held among the primitives as a protection against deformed babies?
(a) Halloween.
(b) The Devil's Dance.
(c) Belial's Feast.
(d) The Purification Ceremonies.

5. The novel begins on what important day?
(a) The day John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
(b) The day the U.S. stock market crashed.
(c) The day Gandhi was assassinated.
(d) The day World War II formally ended.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of the novel, where are Dr. Poole and Loola headed?

2. What injures Dr. Cudworth when he goes to look for Dr. Poole?

3. What became of William Tallis' second wife?

4. How long does Dr. Poole feel proper food production will take in the primitive community?

5. In the beginning of the screenplay, baboons have gathered in what place?

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