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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. Why are the primitives unable to make clothes?
(a) They are religiously opposed to clothing.
(b) Cotton has changed since the radioactivity of the World War.
(c) Only the Chief is allowed to wear clothes.
(d) There is no machinery left to make clothes.

2. The lobby of the Cocktail Bar is filled with which group of people?
(a) Gravediggers and criminals.
(b) Men and their healthy babies.
(c) Religious leaders and the chorus of youths.
(d) Women and their deformed babies.

3. In the beginning of the screenplay, the narrator warns that "all too often" Art takes Nature and __________.
(a) Produces only the sublime.
(b) Crafts only the wicked.
(c) Manufactures only the ludicrous.
(d) Denies all but the lowest organisms.

4. Who is living on Tallis' Cottonwood Ranch when it is visited by the filmmaker(s)?
(a) The Briggs family.
(b) The Tallis family.
(c) The Coulton family.
(d) The Lublin family.

5. What is Loola's nickname for Dr. Poole?
(a) Alfie.
(b) Doc.
(c) Poolie.
(d) Pooh Bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kidnaps Dr. Poole?

2. What is the leashed scientist beaten with by the female baboon holding him?

3. What is the name for the team of scientists at the heart of Ape and Essence?

4. William Tallis is from ____________.

5. What is the youngest gravedigger tempted by, which he must resist?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the circumstances during which Dr. Poole is kidnapped.

7. Why was Gandhi killed according to the narrator?

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

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

10. How does Bob Briggs help Rosie?

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