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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. What does Dr. Schneeglock blame for Dr. Poole's lack of a fulfillment of his promise?

2. The primitives' religious leader presses a young woman about what matter, eventually beating her?

3. Why are the primitives unable to make clothes?

4. Which book does Dr. Poole save from the book burning ordered by the Chief?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Set the scene for the opening of the novel. What is happening? When?

2. Describe the first moment of commonality shared by Dr. Poole and Loola following the rite practiced by the Satanic Science Practitioner.

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

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

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

6. Why are the gravediggers robbing graves?

7. What background information is the narrator able to learn about William Tallis?

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

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

10. What is Bob Briggs appraisal of Gandhi?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the relationship between Dr. Poole and Loola. Why are they compatible souls? What aspects of humanity do they share? Why is Loola different from the other primitives? What does Loola have that Miss Ethel Hook does not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Ape and Essence is structure with a narrative frame. Explain the nature of this narrative frame and what effect the "story-within-a-story" has on reader comprehension and interpretation of the events.

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