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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Poole tell Chief about why New Zealand was spared in the World War?
(a) Dr. Poole lies and states that most of New Zealand was destroyed.
(b) The country was deemed to not be of strategic value.
(c) Its citizens created a magical forcefield.
(d) Dr. Poole refuses to admit he is from New Zealand.

2. Where do the narrator and Bob Briggs discover the screenplay at the heart of the novel?
(a) On the Canterbury ship.
(b) Outside the Studio Commissary.
(c) In Murcia, California.
(d) At Cottonwood Ranch.

3. What is the first thing to appear in the "Ape and Essence" screenplay?
(a) The title.
(b) A gathering of baboons.
(c) The name of the producer.
(d) The ship called the Canterbury.

4. In the beginning of the screenplay, baboons have gathered in what place?
(a) A supermarket.
(b) A library.
(c) A cemetery.
(d) A palace.

5. For how long have the primitives been raiding gravesites?
(a) Four days.
(b) Thirty years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Two hundred years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the occupation of Bob Briggs?

2. In the beginning of the screenplay, the narrator warns that "all too often" Art takes Nature and __________.

3. What is Rosie's career aspiration?

4. What group of artists does Bob Briggs compare himself to in "Tallis"?

5. How much does Bob owe the government in back taxes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Chief concerned about the present mating season?

2. What are the Purification Ceremonies?

3. Describe the Chief's conception of "Democracy."

4. List the allusions/references found in this section of the text.

5. Describe the moment involving a religious rite practiced by the Satanic Science Practitioner.

6. What is the importance of where Tallis preferred to be buried?

7. What about Dr. Poole's presence is surprising to Chief?

8. What does Bob Briggs ask Lou Lublin for, and why? How does this relate to a religious painting?

9. List the allusions/references found in this section of the text.

10. What are the specifics of Bob Briggs' personal troubles at the outset of the novel?

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