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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dr. Poole convince the gravediggers to spare him from being buried alive?

2. What event resulted in the destruction of a majority of mankind in the screenplay?

3. How is Chief able to keep a tight rein on Dr. Poole after meeting him?

4. How much does Bob owe the government in back taxes?

5. Why was a gravedigger subjected to a punishment of twenty-five lashes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the opening of the movie "Ape and Essence."

2. What is the narrator's point about love and fear when describing the crew of the Canterbury?

3. Why does the Chief order his gravediggers to bury Dr. Poole?

4. Describe the moment involving a religious rite practiced by the Satanic Science Practitioner.

5. Describe the landing of the Canterbury and the crew's first sight of land.

6. What point does the script narrator make about baboons and knowledge?

7. What is the importance of where Tallis preferred to be buried?

8. What about Dr. Poole's presence is surprising to Chief?

9. How is Dr. Poole described? What does Dr. Schneeglock think of him?

10. What is the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition, and what is its mission?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Hots Community. What are their beliefs? How were they formed? What is their culture like? Why does Dr. Poole wish to flee to this community?

Essay Topic 2

Much discussion is centered around the discovery of the truth and the nature of knowledge. What kind of theory of truth/knowledge does the novel put forth? How do the Arch Vicar and Dr. Poole differ about the nature of truth and knowledge? What is the consequence for an absence of truth?

Essay Topic 3

Sex versus romance creates tension in Ape and Essence. Explain how this tension is developed through the following situations:

a) The relationship between Dr. Poole and Loola.

b) The relationship between Dr. Poole and Miss Ethel Hook.

c) The Chief's sexual behavior versus the Arch Vicar's sexual behavior

d) The seasonal mating ritual of the primitives

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