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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 ritual is held among the primitives as a protection against deformed babies?
(a) Halloween.
(b) Belial's Feast.
(c) The Purification Ceremonies.
(d) The Devil's Dance.

2. Who kidnaps Dr. Poole?
(a) Miss Ethel Hook.
(b) Three baboons.
(c) The Chief.
(d) Three men.

3. What is the subject of the song the female baboon sings?
(a) Food.
(b) Art.
(c) Love.
(d) War.

4. What surprises Chief about Dr. Poole's admission that he arrived on a boat?
(a) Chief feels only the devil rides on a boat.
(b) The Chief is indifferent to Dr. Poole's admission.
(c) Chief is surprised New Zealand still had boats.
(d) Chief feels boats are magic.

5. What kind of primate represents the greatest among man, according to the narrator?
(a) The lemur.
(b) The baboon.
(c) The chimpanzee.
(d) The gorilla.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was New Zealand spared from the destruction that ravaged the rest of the planet?

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

3. How do the primitives explain the men's propensity to hit women?

4. What is the name of the scientists' ship in Ape and Essence?

5. Which is NOT part of the ceremony held to safeguard against having deformed babies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the Purification Ceremonies?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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