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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 is the first thing to appear in the "Ape and Essence" screenplay?
(a) The title.
(b) A gathering of baboons.
(c) The name of the producer.
(d) The ship called the Canterbury.

2. By the time Cottonwood Ranch is visited, how long had William Tallis been dead?
(a) Eighteen months.
(b) Four years.
(c) Two days.
(d) Six weeks.

3. What is the name of Loola's friend who recently gave birth to a deformed baby?
(a) Emily.
(b) Polly.
(c) Ethel.
(d) Flossie.

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

5. How does the narrator characterize the scientists from New Zealand?
(a) They were hand-selected as the most intelligent of mankind.
(b) They are nothing special, and are quiet and humane.
(c) They are petty and jealous, and given to fighting.
(d) They are extraordinarily physically fit, which will serve them well in their travels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Bob Briggs in financial trouble?

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

3. What is the subject of the song the female baboon sings?

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

5. What surprises Chief about Dr. Poole's admission that he arrived on a boat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the Purification Ceremonies?

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

3. Why is the Chief concerned about the present mating season?

4. Why was Gandhi killed according to the narrator?

5. Why are the gravediggers robbing graves?

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

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

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

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

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

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