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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Mistress of Belial.
(d) Tool of the Devil.

2. Near which major city do the scientists finally land?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Belgrade.
(d) San Francisco.

3. William Tallis is from ____________.
(a) London, England.
(b) Murcia, California.
(c) Bakersfield, California.
(d) New Zealand.

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

5. Which scientist is leashed by a female baboon at the beginning of the screenplay?
(a) John "Mad Jack" Fuller.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Michael Faraday.

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

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

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

9. Which book does Dr. Poole save from the book burning ordered by the Chief?
(a) Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) A collection of letters and personal essays by Marcel Proust.
(c) A volume of Shelley's poetry.
(d) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

10. How is Chief able to keep a tight rein on Dr. Poole after meeting him?
(a) Dr. Poole is strapped to a table which is carried around.
(b) Dr. Poole is administered an intoxicating drug.
(c) Dr. Poole is handcuffed.
(d) Dr. Poole's kneecaps are broken.

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

12. What does Mrs. Coulton believe about how the narrator and William Tallis might have gotten along?
(a) Their political differences would have proved too much for even a casual acquaintance.
(b) They would have been indifferent to one another.
(c) They would not have liked one another.
(d) They would have gotten along splendidly.

13. What does the Chief believe about the current level of discipline in the primitive community?
(a) He believes people should be more free to pursue their own interests.
(b) He does not believe in the harsh discipline exacted by the religious leaders.
(c) As he delivers discipline himself, he is quite pleased with the level of discipline.
(d) He believes the community lacks proper discipline.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to a chorus of youths, what is "the chief end of Man"?

2. The narrator compares the beauty of the first image on screen in "Ape and Essence" to a poem by which poet?

3. What event resulted in the destruction of a majority of mankind in the screenplay?

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

5. Why does the narrator of "Tallis" believe that Gandhi was assassinated?

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