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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which church member whips the mothers after the babies are sacrificed?
(a) The Arch Vicar.
(b) The Postulant.
(c) The Patriarch of Pasadena.
(d) The Satanic Science Practitioner.

2. What does the Arch Vicar blame for famine and war?
(a) Overpopulation.
(b) Drug use.
(c) A failure to understand history.
(d) Greed.

3. Which church member actually does the killing of the babies?
(a) The Arch-Vicar.
(b) The Postulant.
(c) The Patriarch of Pasadena.
(d) The Satanic Science Practitioner.

4. Who comforts Polly when her baby is being taken to be killed?
(a) Chief.
(b) Miss Ethel Hook.
(c) The Arch Vicar.
(d) Loola.

5. How does Dr. Poole react to Polly's child being killed?
(a) He becomes angered and must be restrained.
(b) He chokes the Patriarch of Pasadena to death.
(c) He is caught up in the mob mentality and cheers along with everyone else.
(d) He faints.

6. Why is Loola afraid of entering into a romantic relationship with Dr. Poole?
(a) He is always joking and never takes anything seriously, which annoys her.
(b) He is a foreigner, and foreigners are evil and not to be trusted.
(c) They will probably have a deformed baby.
(d) It is against the law.

7. According to the Arch Vicar, why do his people worship the Devil?
(a) In order to delay the horror of the inevitable for moments longer.
(b) They feed off his power and wish to be possessed by his spirit.
(c) The Devil holds the key to rational behavior and beliefs for mankind.
(d) The Devil has humanity's best interests at heart.

8. What does the Arch Vicar call the calamity of World War that destroyed most of the world?
(a) The Nuke.
(b) The Dimestore Disaster.
(c) The Event.
(d) The Thing.

9. What is used to kill the deformed babies?
(a) An electric cattle prod.
(b) They are strangled.
(c) A knife.
(d) A hammer.

10. The desert tombstone has poetry from which poet inscribed on it?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(c) Ben Jonson.
(d) W. B. Yeats.

11. According to the Arch Vicar, what does Man call Progress?
(a) The appeasement of Belial.
(b) The wickedness of graverobbing.
(c) The destruction of the earth.
(d) The enlightenment of the soul.

12. What is the Arch Vicar's opinion of demon possession?
(a) It is the only explanation for man's irrational behavior and actions.
(b) Demon possession is but a small part of man's degradation.
(c) Belial possesses people in order to help them achieve grace.
(d) It is a foolish notion reserved for the lowest among his people.

13. Who "ravishes" Dr. Poole during mating season?
(a) Two young mulatto girls.
(b) Loola.
(c) Two Postulants.
(d) Polly.

14. To what university is Dr. Poole assigned?
(a) Pepperdine University.
(b) UCLA.
(c) The University of Southern California.
(d) Stanford University.

15. With respect to the strange behavior of the primitives, Dr. Poole experiences a change from which state to which state?
(a) Scientific curiosity to joy.
(b) Pain to Despair.
(c) Horror to scientific curiosity.
(d) Joy to Ecstasy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Arch Vicar believe about Belial's relationship to the atomic bomb?

2. What is the most obvious difference between Arch Vicar's community and the Hots?

3. What book does Dr. Poole read from while courting Loola?

4. Who orders all the mothers to the "place of shame"?

5. When Dr. Poole and Loola stop for a night after their escape, they are thirty miles outside of what town?

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