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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 injures Miss Ethel Hook when she goes to look for Dr. Poole?
(a) A poisonous snake.
(b) Malnutrition.
(c) An arrow shot by a primitive.
(d) Gamma radiation.

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. Which of the following does the Arch Vicar NOT blame for world wars?
(a) Overpopulation.
(b) Famine.
(c) Demonic possession.
(d) Wealth.

4. When Dr. Poole and Loola stop for a night after their escape, they are thirty miles outside of what town?
(a) Phoenix.
(b) Las Vegas.
(c) San Diego.
(d) Lancaster.

5. Where are the babies sacrificed to appease the Devil?
(a) The corner of Sunset and Vine.
(b) The Los Angeles Coliseum.
(c) The San Diego Zoo.
(d) An abandoned warehouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Arch Vicar's religion, how is procreation regulated?

2. What is Polly's perspective on her deformed baby?

3. How long has it taken for the primitive community to establish their pattern of mating rituals?

4. What advantage does the Arch Vicar see for an unmutated male to join his church?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the moment in which Dr. Poole and Loola discover romantic feelings for one another, rather than lust.

2. How is Loola finally swayed to run away with Dr. Poole?

3. What is peculiar about the babies being prepared for the Purification Ceremonies?

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

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

6. What scientific reason does the script narrator give for the restrictive mating season of the primitives?

7. According to the Arch Vicar, did Belial need the atomic bomb to assure the destruction of mankind?

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

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

10. What is Dr. Poole's reasoning for why Belial can never win in his battle against mankind?

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