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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the result of Dr. Poole and Loola's discussion in a car garage toward the end of the novel?
(a) They agree they must stay, but they make plans to shepherd their child to the Hots community.
(b) They agree to stay in the primitive community, but try to change its laws and customs.
(c) They agree to run away together.
(d) They agree Dr. Poole must flee north, but Loola must stay.

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

5. How many laborers are assigned to Dr. Poole in his job?
(a) None.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Four.
(d) Two hundred.

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

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

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

9. In which garage does Dr. Poole meet with Loola in a car to have a discussion about the nature of evil?
(a) St. Azazel's.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1984.
(d) The Unholy of Holies.

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

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

12. How does the Arch Vicar aid Dr. Poole in seeing the mating rituals better?
(a) He gives him a walking tour.
(b) He orders the lights to be turned on.
(c) He gives him night-vision goggles.
(d) He orders all couples to be brought out into the moonlight.

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

14. When Loola is assigned to her new job, who acts as a comforting friend and confidante?
(a) Flossie.
(b) Dr. Poole.
(c) The Chief Assistant to the Grand Inquisitor.
(d) Polly.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Loola is assigned to her new job, at which location does she work?

3. What explanation does the Arch Vicar have for his community's restricted mating patterns?

4. Whose tombstone do Dr. Poole and Loola discover in the desert?

5. What injures Dr. Cudworth when he goes to look for Dr. Poole?

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