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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. According to a chorus of youths, what is "the chief end of Man"?
(a) To eat, drink, and be merry.
(b) To propitiate Belial.
(c) To die in an inferno of glory.
(d) To protect and shelter women.

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

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

4. What group of artists does Bob Briggs compare himself to in "Tallis"?
(a) The Surrealist Writers.
(b) The Romantic Poets.
(c) The Baroque Composers.
(d) The Impressionist Painters.

5. William Tallis died from ___________.
(a) A botched surgery.
(b) A hit-and-run car accident.
(c) Cancer of the throat.
(d) A heart attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which gravedigger apologizes to Dr. Poole by claiming that burying Dr. Poole was done only for fun?

2. Who leads the team of gravediggers at the Southern California mausoleum?

3. Why is Chief concerned that no women produced healthy babies this season?

4. How are the books incinerated in the Chief's book-burning ceremony?

5. Why did William Tallis write "Ape and Essence"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the landing of the Canterbury and the crew's first sight of land.

3. What is Bob Briggs appraisal of Gandhi?

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

5. How do Bob Briggs and the narrator initially become interested in "Ape and Essence"?

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

7. Why does the Chief order his gravediggers to bury Dr. Poole?

8. How do Chief and Dr. Poole clash over books at Pershing Square?

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

10. What is the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition, and what is its mission?

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