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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 explanation does the Arch Vicar have for his community's restricted mating patterns?
(a) It is necessary for survival.
(b) It is the Law of Belial.
(c) It is due to excessive gamma radiation.
(d) It is due to the powerful influence of the Hots community.

2. The desert tombstone has poetry from which poet inscribed on it?
(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(b) Ben Jonson.
(c) W. B. Yeats.
(d) Walt Whitman.

3. Who comforts Polly when her baby is being taken to be killed?
(a) Miss Ethel Hook.
(b) The Arch Vicar.
(c) Chief.
(d) Loola.

4. How many laborers are assigned to Dr. Poole in his job?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Four.
(c) Two hundred.
(d) None.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Canterbury scientists ultimately decide to do about Dr. Poole?

2. Where are the Arch Vicar's books kept?

3. What happens to sexually aggressive boys in the primitive community?

4. In what year was William Tallis born?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the Arch Vicar's stance on the reality of demonic possession?

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

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