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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. Who orders Dr. Poole to be buried up to his waist by the gravediggers?
(a) Flossie.
(b) Chief.
(c) Miss Ethel Hook.
(d) Loola.

2. How does Dr. Poole become separated from his team?
(a) He stops to propose marriage to Miss Ethel Hook.
(b) He decides to confront the aggressive baboons in a nearby village.
(c) He becomes injured, and the others will not slow for him.
(d) He stops to observe an unusual species of plant.

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

4. The primitives' religious leader presses a young woman about what matter, eventually beating her?
(a) The Nature of Woman.
(b) The Power of Belial.
(c) The Beauty of Nature.
(d) The Suffering of Mankind.

5. According to the narrator, what was Gandhi's "great secret"?
(a) He was a great admirer of art and artists.
(b) The fact that he did not want anything for himself.
(c) He was a serial adulterer.
(d) The fact that he secretly yearned for power and glory.

Short Answer Questions

1. On which street corner does Chief order books to be incinerated?

2. For how long have the primitives been raiding gravesites?

3. The narrator compares the beauty of the first image on screen in "Ape and Essence" to a poem by which poet?

4. William Tallis died from ___________.

5. What does Mrs. Coulton believe about how the narrator and William Tallis might have gotten along?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Bob Briggs help Rosie?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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