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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On which street corner does Chief order books to be incinerated?
(a) 11th Street and Washington Boulevard.
(b) 5th Street and Pershing Square.
(c) Mausoleum Way and Hollywood Cemetery Square.
(d) Belial Avenue and Azrael Drive.

2. What is the name of Loola's friend who recently gave birth to a deformed baby?
(a) Emily.
(b) Ethel.
(c) Polly.
(d) Flossie.

3. The primitives' religious leader presses a young woman about what matter, eventually beating her?
(a) The Beauty of Nature.
(b) The Suffering of Mankind.
(c) The Nature of Woman.
(d) The Power of Belial.

4. What is the occupation of Bob Briggs?
(a) Gravedigger.
(b) Botanist.
(c) Retired military officer.
(d) Screenwriter.

5. Why does Dr. Poole claim he cannot fix the Chief's train?
(a) Dr. Poole pretends he does not know how to fix the train to provide leverage for future negotiations.
(b) Dr. Poole does not possess the necessary engineering background.
(c) Dr. Poole would only fix the train if the Chief released Loola.
(d) Dr. Poole does not wish to help the Chief, whom he considers evil.

6. Where do the narrator and Bob Briggs discover the screenplay at the heart of the novel?
(a) At Cottonwood Ranch.
(b) In Murcia, California.
(c) Outside the Studio Commissary.
(d) On the Canterbury ship.

7. The lobby of the Cocktail Bar is filled with which group of people?
(a) Women and their deformed babies.
(b) Men and their healthy babies.
(c) Religious leaders and the chorus of youths.
(d) Gravediggers and criminals.

8. Which great fear does Loola confide to Dr. Poole when they first meet?
(a) They will run out of food.
(b) She is slowly dying from radiation.
(c) Chief will kill her.
(d) She will bear a deformed baby.

9. Why was Dr. Poole buried up to his waist by the gravediggers?
(a) He used a swear word in front of the Chief.
(b) He refused to fix the Chief's train.
(c) He came on a boat, which the gravediggers consider evil.
(d) He punched a gravedigger trying to escape.

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

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

12. Who is living on Tallis' Cottonwood Ranch when it is visited by the filmmaker(s)?
(a) The Lublin family.
(b) The Tallis family.
(c) The Briggs family.
(d) The Coulton family.

13. Which of the following is true about the scientists' rediscovery of the world?
(a) They crash-land because of a dense fog.
(b) They use sonar technology to find land.
(c) The world is still highly radioactive, and the scientists must wear suits.
(d) Oil derricks can still be seen in the water outside of shore.

14. Why are the primitives unable to make clothes?
(a) Only the Chief is allowed to wear clothes.
(b) Cotton has changed since the radioactivity of the World War.
(c) They are religiously opposed to clothing.
(d) There is no machinery left to make clothes.

15. What is Rosie's career aspiration?
(a) Writer.
(b) Singer and actress.
(c) Painter.
(d) Producer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did William Tallis write "Ape and Essence"?

2. Where does the granddaughter of William Tallis live?

3. What is the name for the team of scientists at the heart of Ape and Essence?

4. What ritual is held among the primitives as a protection against deformed babies?

5. The novel begins on what important day?

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