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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 happens to sexually aggressive boys in the primitive community?
(a) Their aggression is encouraged for the good of the community.
(b) They are sacrificed on the high altar.
(c) They are chained in a dungeon.
(d) They are castrated.

2. When evil destroys itself, what notion returns back to humanity?
(a) The Spirit of Belial.
(b) The Unholy of Holies.
(c) The Order of Things.
(d) The Phoenix Bird.

3. What does the Arch Vicar tell Dr. Poole about his scientist friends?
(a) They are all dead from gamma radiation.
(b) They are coming for him now, and he must make a choice as to where to go.
(c) They were malnourished and fell to a pack of wolves.
(d) They were wounded trying to find him, and there will be no rescue.

4. Who is NOT among Dr. Poole's initial guests to his new laboratory?
(a) Loola.
(b) Arch Vicar.
(c) Chief.
(d) Director of Food Production.

5. Why is Chief displeased with Dr. Poole and his opinion of food production?
(a) Dr. Poole is providing no plans to provide for most of Chief's favorite foods.
(b) Chief is convinced Dr. Poole wishes to poison the community.
(c) Chief wishes the process to go significantly faster.
(d) Chief feels Dr. Poole is being overly optimistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion is Dr. Poole?

2. What is the reason that sex has become seasonal for the primitive community?

3. What is the Arch Vicar's opinion of demon possession?

4. What is the result of Dr. Poole and Loola's discussion in a car garage toward the end of the novel?

5. What is the name for those who do not obey the strict mating rituals of the Arch Vicar's religion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What commentary does the script narrator offer about joy (as described in a poem by Shelley) and the possibility of joy in the ape-mind?

2. Describe the final scene of the film involving William Tallis' gravestone.

3. Describe the scene, including the chanting, taking place in the Los Angeles Coliseum at the height of the Purification Ceremonies.

4. What difference does the narrator make between conscience and customs?

5. What restrictions are placed on mating in the primitive community? What happens to those who dare to disobey?

6. What effect has the Industrial Revolution had on humanity according to the Arch Vicar?

7. How does the poetry of Percy Shelley contribute to the development of romance between Dr. Poole and Loola?

8. How does the Arch Vicar defend his religion's practices with respect to Dr. Poole's own religion?

9. Describe the circumstances of Dr. Poole's rape.

10. Why does Loola feel that Dr. Poole is different from other men she has known?

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