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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: The Script, pages 25-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the scientists from New Zealand?
(a) They are extraordinarily physically fit, which will serve them well in their travels.
(b) They are petty and jealous, and given to fighting.
(c) They were hand-selected as the most intelligent of mankind.
(d) They are nothing special, and are quiet and humane.

2. Why is Bob Briggs in financial trouble?
(a) He has made a series of poor investments.
(b) His home was recently robbed.
(c) He owes back taxes.
(d) He has accrued gambling debts.

3. What is Miss Ethel Hook's desire, with respect to Dr. Poole?
(a) She wishes Dr. Poole would drop dead.
(b) She wishes Dr. Poole would teach her more about the flora and fauna they discover.
(c) She wishes Dr. Poole would propose marriage to her.
(d) She wishes Dr. Poole would leave the team and go back to New Zealand, for his own safety.

4. In the beginning of the screenplay, the narrator warns that "all too often" Art takes Nature and __________.
(a) Manufactures only the ludicrous.
(b) Denies all but the lowest organisms.
(c) Produces only the sublime.
(d) Crafts only the wicked.

5. By the time Cottonwood Ranch is visited, how long had William Tallis been dead?
(a) Two days.
(b) Four years.
(c) Eighteen months.
(d) Six weeks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who decides to drive to Cottonwood Ranch to find William Tallis?

3. What is the name of Bob Briggs' wife?

4. What is the foundation of modern life to the narrator?

5. What is the reader told about how the "Ape and Essence" script appears in the novel?

(see the answer key)

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