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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 the Chief's perspective on sexual intercourse?

2. What is Loola's initial perspective on her night of sex with Dr. Poole?

3. When workers arrive to be assigned jobs for the year, what article of clothing are they given?

4. Who stands guard over Dr. Poole during the mating rituals to ensure he does not escape?

5. In what year was William Tallis born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to young boys who show early signs of sexual aggression in the primitive community?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe Dr. Poole's emotional state of mind after being ravished by the two mulatto girls.

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

10. What became of the Canterbury and its crew, ultimately?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of Science in Ape and Essence? How does science drive the plot? Character motivations? How does Huxley regard the pursuit of Science? Is science a danger as well as a potential boon? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Ape and Essence presents a dystopic view of the future. What is a dystopia? What are the features of such a place? What specific aspects of Ape and Essence are dystopic? Why might an author depict such a dystopia?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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