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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. The narrator makes an analogy between Gandhi's nonviolence and what feature of Bob Brigg's life?
(a) His writing.
(b) His drinking.
(c) His gambling.
(d) His adultery.

2. Which great fear does Loola confide to Dr. Poole when they first meet?
(a) Chief will kill her.
(b) She is slowly dying from radiation.
(c) They will run out of food.
(d) She will bear a deformed baby.

3. Where does the granddaughter of William Tallis live?
(a) Murcia, California.
(b) Japan.
(c) Germany.
(d) Ohio.

4. The narrator compares the beauty of the first image on screen in "Ape and Essence" to a poem by which poet?
(a) W.B. Yeats.
(b) Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Percy Shelley.

5. How does Loola feel about the beating of the young woman at the hands of the primitives' religious leader?
(a) She feels it is all in good fun.
(b) She feels it is unjust and horrific.
(c) She is indifferent, having seen the ritual dozens of times.
(d) She feels it is necessary to maintain proper discipline.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of the screenplay, baboons have gathered in what place?

2. What kind of primate represents the "least among man," according to the narrator?

3. Who decides to drive to Cottonwood Ranch to find William Tallis?

4. Who is living on Tallis' Cottonwood Ranch when it is visited by the filmmaker(s)?

5. According to the narrator, what was Gandhi's "great secret"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Dr. Poole described? What does Dr. Schneeglock think of him?

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

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

4. Why are the gravediggers robbing graves?

5. Describe the scene in which baboons are gathered at a palace.

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

7. How is Dr. Poole able to argue his way out of being buried alive?

8. What point does the script narrator make about baboons and knowledge?

9. Describe the first moment of commonality shared by Dr. Poole and Loola following the rite practiced by the Satanic Science Practitioner.

10. Set the scene for the opening of the novel. What is happening? When?

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