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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When workers arrive to be assigned jobs for the year, what article of clothing are they given?
(a) Aprons.
(b) Hats.
(c) Badges.
(d) Swimming trunks.

2. What do the Canterbury scientists ultimately decide to do about Dr. Poole?
(a) Stage a military rescue.
(b) Air bomb the entire area.
(c) Leave him.
(d) Kill him.

3. Who stands guard over Dr. Poole during the mating rituals to ensure he does not escape?
(a) The Arch Vicar.
(b) The Patriarch of Pasadena.
(c) Two Postulants.
(d) Loola.

4. What does the congregation chant as the babies are sacrificed?
(a) All Hail Wickedness.
(b) Glory to Belial.
(c) Hallelujah We Are Saved.
(d) Glory Be to God and All Above.

5. Who is at the very top of the religious hierarchy in the primitive community?
(a) Satanic Science Practitioner.
(b) The Cardinal of Sin.
(c) The Pope of Darkness.
(d) Arch Vicar of Belial.

6. Where are the babies sacrificed to appease the Devil?
(a) The San Diego Zoo.
(b) The corner of Sunset and Vine.
(c) The Los Angeles Coliseum.
(d) An abandoned warehouse.

7. What is Loola's initial perspective on her night of sex with Dr. Poole?
(a) She loves him desperately.
(b) Given her cultural background, she is entirely indifferent.
(c) He was a terrible lover.
(d) He was more fun than her other partners.

8. In what year did William Tallis die?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1984.

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

10. What injures Miss Ethel Hook when she goes to look for Dr. Poole?
(a) Gamma radiation.
(b) A poisonous snake.
(c) Malnutrition.
(d) An arrow shot by a primitive.

11. What will happen to the deformation rate of babies in fifty years, according to the Arch Vicar?
(a) It will double
(b) It will triple.
(c) It will stay about the same.
(d) It will halve.

12. The Arch Vicar's church structure is named after which saint?
(a) St. Jerome.
(b) St. Michael.
(c) St. Azazel.
(d) St. Peter.

13. What relationship does the Arch Vicar urge for Dr. Poole with respect to the church?
(a) The Arch Vicar thinks Dr. Poole would be a bad influence on the church.
(b) The Arch Vicar encourages Dr. Poole to become a full member.
(c) The Arch Vicar wishes to expel Dr. Poole from the church because of his lustful ways.
(d) The Arch Vicar thinks Dr. Poole is not enlightened enough to understand the church.

14. How long does Dr. Poole feel proper food production will take in the primitive community?
(a) Fifty years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Five years.
(d) One thousand years.

15. The deformed babies in the Cocktail Bar were all born between what dates?
(a) December 10 and December 17.
(b) January 1 and December 31.
(c) April 4 through May 21.
(d) January 1 and March 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job is assigned to Loola after her job review?

2. How does the Arch Vicar respond when Dr. Poole expresses horror at the sight of blood at the sacrifice of the babies?

3. How does the Arch Vicar aid Dr. Poole in seeing the mating rituals better?

4. What does the Arch Vicar call the calamity of World War that destroyed most of the world?

5. At the end of the novel, where are Dr. Poole and Loola headed?

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