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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to sexually aggressive boys in the primitive community?
(a) Their aggression is encouraged for the good of the community.
(b) They are sacrificed on the high altar.
(c) They are castrated.
(d) They are chained in a dungeon.

2. How does the Arch Vicar respond when Dr. Poole expresses horror at the sight of blood at the sacrifice of the babies?
(a) Dr. Poole's own religion is a history full of bloodshed.
(b) Dr. Poole needs to be a man and toughen up.
(c) The Arch Vicar hurries him away and agrees that it is a terrible sight.
(d) The blood represents the demons leaving the baby's body.

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

4. According to Dr. Poole, what happens when "evil is carried to the limit"?
(a) It becomes good.
(b) It destroys itself.
(c) It is always counteracted by great good.
(d) It destroys mankind.

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

6. At the end of the novel, where are Dr. Poole and Loola headed?
(a) Lancaster.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Canada.
(d) Bakersfield.

7. Where are the Arch Vicar's books kept?
(a) The Unholy of Unholies.
(b) The Baker's Store.
(c) The High Altar.
(d) The Seminary.

8. When Loola is assigned to her new job, at which location does she work?
(a) Hollywood cemetery.
(b) The lab of the Director of Food Production.
(c) The Los Angeles Coliseum.
(d) Silver Ore Mine.

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dr. Poole react to Polly's child being killed?

2. What relationship does the Arch Vicar urge for Dr. Poole with respect to the church?

3. According to the Arch Vicar, how long has mankind pitted itself against Nature?

4. Why is Loola afraid of entering into a romantic relationship with Dr. Poole?

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

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