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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. When Loola is assigned to her new job, who acts as a comforting friend and confidante?
(a) Dr. Poole.
(b) Polly.
(c) The Chief Assistant to the Grand Inquisitor.
(d) Flossie.

2. As Dr. Poole and Loola have sex, what is the Arch Vicar doing?
(a) Giving last rites to the latest deformed babies.
(b) Addressing the congregation.
(c) Watching them proudly from the shadows.
(d) Reading in his seminary.

3. How long has it taken for the primitive community to establish their pattern of mating rituals?
(a) Forty days and nights.
(b) Two generations.
(c) One year.
(d) Two hundred years.

4. Loola notes that Dr. Poole is different from the primitive men in what way?
(a) He likes to talk to her.
(b) He is a man of action rather than words.
(c) He expresses contempt for deformed babies.
(d) He finds no value in books.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Dr. Poole react to Polly's child being killed?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What discussion do the Chief, Arch Vicar, and Dr. Poole have concerning food production?

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. Describe what occurs immediately preceding Dr. Poole's faint at the Purification Ceremonies.

9. Describe the initial entrance of the Arch Vicar.

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

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