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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Loola feel about the beating of the young woman at the hands of the primitives' religious leader?
(a) She is indifferent, having seen the ritual dozens of times.
(b) She feels it is necessary to maintain proper discipline.
(c) She feels it is all in good fun.
(d) She feels it is unjust and horrific.

2. What is the name of the scientists' ship in Ape and Essence?
(a) The Kiwi.
(b) The Flying Dutchman.
(c) The Canterbury.
(d) The Worchestershire.

3. How does Dr. Poole convince the gravediggers to spare him from being buried alive?
(a) He offers to fix their train.
(b) He gives them several pieces of jewelry.
(c) He offers to teach them to grow better crops.
(d) He offers to give his boat to them.

4. What surprises Chief about Dr. Poole's admission that he arrived on a boat?
(a) Chief feels boats are magic.
(b) Chief is surprised New Zealand still had boats.
(c) The Chief is indifferent to Dr. Poole's admission.
(d) Chief feels only the devil rides on a boat.

5. What is Loola's nickname for Dr. Poole?
(a) Alfie.
(b) Doc.
(c) Pooh Bear.
(d) Poolie.

6. What is the reader told about how the "Ape and Essence" script appears in the novel?
(a) Ape and Essence was reprinted without change or comment.
(b) The names in the script were changed for legal reasons.
(c) Ape and Essence was heavily edited to improve dialogue and story.
(d) The Ape and Essence appearing in the novel was created from a memory of the script itself.

7. In the beginning of the screenplay, the narrator warns that "all too often" Art takes Nature and __________.
(a) Denies all but the lowest organisms.
(b) Crafts only the wicked.
(c) Manufactures only the ludicrous.
(d) Produces only the sublime.

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

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

10. In the beginning of the screenplay, baboons have gathered in what place?
(a) A palace.
(b) A library.
(c) A supermarket.
(d) A cemetery.

11. William Tallis died from ___________.
(a) A hit-and-run car accident.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) A botched surgery.
(d) Cancer of the throat.

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

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

14. 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's followers realized how self-centered he was.
(c) He soundly rejected the real people in favor of nationalization.
(d) Gandhi was a political animal, and he paid the price.

15. According to a chorus of youths, what is "the chief end of Man"?
(a) To propitiate Belial.
(b) To eat, drink, and be merry.
(c) To die in an inferno of glory.
(d) To protect and shelter women.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Rosie's career aspiration?

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

4. The lobby of the Cocktail Bar is filled with which group of people?

5. What became of William Tallis' immediate family?

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