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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. What promise does Bob make to Rosie?
(a) Bob agrees to introduce her to a powerful music executive.
(b) Bob agrees to never visit Cottonwood Ranch again.
(c) Bob agrees to schedule a screen test for her.
(d) Bob agrees to read her feature screenplay.

2. When Bob Briggs speaks about his personal history, how does the narrator react?
(a) The narrator is intrigued.
(b) The narrator is infuriated and punches Briggs.
(c) The narrator is disgusted and leaves the room.
(d) The narrator is bored.

3. When evil destroys itself, what notion returns back to humanity?
(a) The Order of Things.
(b) The Phoenix Bird.
(c) The Unholy of Holies.
(d) The Spirit of Belial.

4. What is the reason that sex has become seasonal for the primitive community?
(a) Men are given regular injections of testosterone.
(b) Gamma radiation has interfered with female hormones.
(c) To control the population, sex is performed during certain moon phases.
(d) It is culturally ingrained and has no physical causation.

5. Where did William Tallis prefer to be buried?
(a) In his homeland of Germany.
(b) In the Hollywood Cemetery.
(c) In the desert.
(d) At sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the narrator and Bob Briggs meet at the outset of the novel?

2. Who decides to drive to Cottonwood Ranch to find William Tallis?

3. Why was New Zealand spared from the destruction that ravaged the rest of the planet?

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

5. According to Dr. Poole, what happens when "evil is carried to the limit"?

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