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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: The Script, pages 75-100.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the occupation of Bob Briggs?
(a) Gravedigger.
(b) Botanist.
(c) Retired military officer.
(d) Screenwriter.

2. What does the Arch Vicar believe about Belial's relationship to the atomic bomb?
(a) Belial created atomic technology, but intended it to be used as a source of limitless energy.
(b) Belial personally engineered the bomb.
(c) The bomb was essential for Belial to degrade mankind.
(d) Belial would have degraded mankind with or without the bomb.

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

4. Where are the Arch Vicar's books kept?
(a) The Seminary.
(b) The Unholy of Unholies.
(c) The Baker's Store.
(d) The High Altar.

5. Which church member whips the mothers after the babies are sacrificed?
(a) The Postulant.
(b) The Satanic Science Practitioner.
(c) The Arch Vicar.
(d) The Patriarch of Pasadena.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the scientists' ship in Ape and Essence?

2. Which scientist is leashed by a female baboon at the beginning of the screenplay?

3. Where is Cottonwood Ranch located?

4. The narrator compares the beauty of the first image on screen in "Ape and Essence" to a poem by which poet?

5. In the beginning of the screenplay, baboons have gathered in what place?

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