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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason that sex has become seasonal for the primitive community?
(a) Men are given regular injections of testosterone.
(b) To control the population, sex is performed during certain moon phases.
(c) Gamma radiation has interfered with female hormones.
(d) It is culturally ingrained and has no physical causation.

2. What is NOT given to Dr. Poole when he is assigned a job?
(a) A plot of land.
(b) A laboratory.
(c) Several laborers.
(d) Loola for his assistant.

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

4. Which two concepts does the Arch Vicar blame for the fall of mankind?
(a) Socialism and Generosity.
(b) Enlightenment and Generosity.
(c) Progress and Nationalism.
(d) Individualism and Joy.

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

6. As Dr. Poole and Loola have sex, what is the Arch Vicar doing?
(a) Watching them proudly from the shadows.
(b) Addressing the congregation.
(c) Reading in his seminary.
(d) Giving last rites to the latest deformed babies.

7. Who is NOT among Dr. Poole's initial guests to his new laboratory?
(a) Loola.
(b) Director of Food Production.
(c) Chief.
(d) Arch Vicar.

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

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

10. Who assigns jobs in the primitive community?
(a) The Grand Inquisitor's Chief Assistant.
(b) The Postulant.
(c) The Patriarch of Pasadena.
(d) The Satanic Science Practitioner.

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

12. What advantage does the Arch Vicar see for an unmutated male to join his church?
(a) The church will kill all lust and temptation in the man.
(b) The church will continue to protect the man from mutation.
(c) The church will instill values of hard work and friendship.
(d) The church will greatly add to the probability that the man sires a healthy baby.

13. What does Flossie think about Loola's relationship with Dr. Poole?
(a) Flossie feels Loola and Dr. Poole should elope.
(b) Loola should stay away from Dr. Poole because he is possibly contagious with Belial's spirit.
(c) Flossie encourages the relationship, as it may produce a healthy infant.
(d) Loola should stay away from Dr. Poole, given his romantic lust.

14. In what year was William Tallis born?
(a) 1490.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1945.

15. Which of the following does the Arch Vicar NOT blame for world wars?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Demonic possession.
(c) Famine.
(d) Overpopulation.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name for the innermost chamber where the Arch Vicar resides?

4. Where are the Arch Vicar's books kept?

5. Which church member actually does the killing of the babies?

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