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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 the Arch Vicar, what makes men into cowards, saints, and humans?
(a) War.
(b) Conscience.
(c) Love.
(d) Technology.

2. What is the result of Dr. Poole and Loola's discussion in a car garage toward the end of the novel?
(a) They agree to stay in the primitive community, but try to change its laws and customs.
(b) They agree they must stay, but they make plans to shepherd their child to the Hots community.
(c) They agree Dr. Poole must flee north, but Loola must stay.
(d) They agree to run away together.

3. What is the name for the innermost chamber where the Arch Vicar resides?
(a) Belial's Den.
(b) The High Altar.
(c) The Unholy of Unholies.
(d) Cocktail Lounge.

4. What is NOT given to Dr. Poole when he is assigned a job?
(a) Several laborers.
(b) A plot of land.
(c) A laboratory.
(d) Loola for his assistant.

5. On what structure are the babies sacrificed?
(a) The High Altar.
(b) Belial's Butcher Block.
(c) Vessel of the Unholy Spirit.
(d) The Occasional Table.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Dr. Poole feel proper food production will take in the primitive community?

2. The desert tombstone has poetry from which poet inscribed on it?

3. What religion is Dr. Poole?

4. According to the Arch Vicar, how do Men destroy themselves?

5. Who orders all the mothers to the "place of shame"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dr. Poole's emotional state of mind after being ravished by the two mulatto girls.

2. What happens to young boys who show early signs of sexual aggression in the primitive community?

3. Does the Arch Vicar wish for Dr. Poole to join the church? Why or why not?

4. What is the Arch Vicar's theory of history? What does this have to do with the "Order of Things"?

5. What is the Arch Vicar's explanation for why his people worship Belial, all the while acknowledging the being's evilness.

6. Provide the following characters' views on sex: the Arch Vicar, the Chief, and Dr. Poole.

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

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

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

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

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