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

2. What does the Arch Vicar believe about Belial's relationship to the atomic bomb?

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

4. What religion is Dr. Poole?

5. What is NOT given to Dr. Poole when he is assigned a job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the events in which Dr. Poole and Loola are assigned new jobs in the primitive community.

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

3. Describe the initial entrance of the Arch Vicar.

4. Describe the final scene of the film involving William Tallis' gravestone.

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

6. How does the Arch Vicar defend his religion's practices with respect to Dr. Poole's own religion?

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

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

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

10. Describe the scene, including the chanting, taking place in the Los Angeles Coliseum at the height of the Purification Ceremonies.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is organized religion depicted in Ape and Essence? Do you believe Huxley intends the Arch Vicar's religion to provide a characterization of all of organized religion? How might the Belial religion compare to modern Christian religion? Is organized religion another of society's ills in Huxley's view?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Explain some of the Arch Vicar's views? These would include:

a) theory of world history

b) theory of divinity and Belial

c) theory of demon possession

d) why his church is a positive influence

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