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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 is Loola threatened with when she objects to her assigned job?

2. When Dr. Poole and Loola stop for a night after their escape, they are thirty miles outside of what town?

3. What emotion best describes Dr. Poole's state of mind after the mating rituals?

4. Who assigns jobs in the primitive community?

5. Loola notes that Dr. Poole is different from the primitive men in what way?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the Arch Vicar's explanation for why his people worship Belial, all the while acknowledging the being's evilness.

3. Does the Arch Vicar wish for Dr. Poole to join the church? Why or why not?

4. Describe the initial entrance of the Arch Vicar.

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

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

7. What difference does the narrator make between conscience and customs?

8. What is Dr. Poole's reasoning for why Belial can never win in his battle against mankind?

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

10. How does the Arch Vicar find out about Dr. Poole's escape? How does he react?

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

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 3

Discuss the steps involved in the Purification Ceremonies of Belial's Day. What is the goal of the Purification Ceremonies? What is the religious belief system behind the ceremonies?

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