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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 derogatory name do primitive men call the primitive women who bear deformed babies?
(a) Satan's Spawn.
(b) Tool of the Devil.
(c) Mistress of Belial.
(d) Vessel of the Unholy Spirit.

2. What is the occupation of Bob Briggs?
(a) Botanist.
(b) Screenwriter.
(c) Gravedigger.
(d) Retired military officer.

3. Which book does Dr. Poole save from the book burning ordered by the Chief?
(a) A volume of Shelley's poetry.
(b) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
(c) Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
(d) A collection of letters and personal essays by Marcel Proust.

4. What is the name for the primitives' religious leader?
(a) Vessel of the Unholy Spirit.
(b) Right Hand of Belial.
(c) The Satanic Science Practitioner.
(d) Book Eater.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bob fears Elaine is cheating on him with which man?

2. What is the name of Bob Briggs' wife?

3. Who was NOT among the team of scientists from New Zealand?

4. Which scientist is leashed by a female baboon at the beginning of the screenplay?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the opening of the movie "Ape and Essence."

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

7. What is the narrator's point about love and fear when describing the crew of the Canterbury?

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

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

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

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