View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: The Script, pages 100-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Chief believe about the current level of discipline in the primitive community?
(a) He believes the community lacks proper discipline.
(b) He believes people should be more free to pursue their own interests.
(c) As he delivers discipline himself, he is quite pleased with the level of discipline.
(d) He does not believe in the harsh discipline exacted by the religious leaders.

2. Why does Dr. Poole claim he cannot fix the Chief's train?
(a) Dr. Poole would only fix the train if the Chief released Loola.
(b) Dr. Poole pretends he does not know how to fix the train to provide leverage for future negotiations.
(c) Dr. Poole does not possess the necessary engineering background.
(d) Dr. Poole does not wish to help the Chief, whom he considers evil.

3. What does the Arch Vicar blame for famine and war?
(a) Drug use.
(b) Overpopulation.
(c) Greed.
(d) A failure to understand history.

4. Which great fear does Loola confide to Dr. Poole when they first meet?
(a) They will run out of food.
(b) Chief will kill her.
(c) She will bear a deformed baby.
(d) She is slowly dying from radiation.

5. Which two concepts does the Arch Vicar blame for the fall of mankind?
(a) Progress and Nationalism.
(b) Enlightenment and Generosity.
(c) Individualism and Joy.
(d) Socialism and Generosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Coulton believe about how the narrator and William Tallis might have gotten along?

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

3. What group of artists does Bob Briggs compare himself to in "Tallis"?

4. Where are the babies sacrificed to appease the Devil?

5. According to the narrator, what was Gandhi's "great secret"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 376 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample