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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion best describes Dr. Poole's state of mind after the mating rituals?
(a) Scientific curiosity.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Pride.
(d) Joy.

2. What is Loola threatened with when she objects to her assigned job?
(a) The isolation chamber.
(b) Death by hanging.
(c) Twenty-five lashes.
(d) Rape.

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

4. In his conversation with Dr. Poole, the Arch Vicar shows himself to be an expert in which field?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Trains.
(c) Computers.
(d) World history.

5. What book does Dr. Poole read from while courting Loola?
(a) The Bible.
(b) A book of Shelley's poetry.
(c) Shakespeare's love sonnets.
(d) William Tallis' Ape and Essence.

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

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

8. When Dr. Poole and Loola stop for a night after their escape, they are thirty miles outside of what town?
(a) San Diego.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Las Vegas.
(d) Lancaster.

9. The Hots community has what relationship to the government of the primitives?
(a) The Hots community does not honor any government edicts or demands.
(b) The Hots cower in front of the government and will honor any request.
(c) The Hots benefit financially from following governmental orders.
(d) The Hots are secretly led by the government, and so secretly follow its orders.

10. What is the Arch Vicar's perspective on sexual intercourse?
(a) Without it, he would have no reason to go on living.
(b) It is revolting.
(c) He feels no emotion from sexual intercourse.
(d) It is healthy.

11. Where do the Hots live?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Bakersfield.
(c) Mexico.
(d) New Zealand.

12. Loola notes that Dr. Poole is different from the primitive men in what way?
(a) He finds no value in books.
(b) He is a man of action rather than words.
(c) He likes to talk to her.
(d) He expresses contempt for deformed babies.

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

14. What does the Arch Vicar tell Dr. Poole about his scientist friends?
(a) They were wounded trying to find him, and there will be no rescue.
(b) They were malnourished and fell to a pack of wolves.
(c) They are all dead from gamma radiation.
(d) They are coming for him now, and he must make a choice as to where to go.

15. According to the Arch Vicar, how do Men destroy themselves?
(a) By sacrificing deformed babies.
(b) By impregnating women.
(c) By using drugs.
(d) By destroying their environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name for those who do not obey the strict mating rituals of the Arch Vicar's religion?

2. In what year did William Tallis die?

3. Which desert do Dr. Poole and Loola cross to escape the primitive community?

4. What is the Arch Vicar's opinion of the Industrial Revolution?

5. Who comforts Polly when her baby is being taken to be killed?

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