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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who assigns jobs in the primitive community?
(a) The Grand Inquisitor's Chief Assistant.
(b) The Postulant.
(c) The Satanic Science Practitioner.
(d) The Patriarch of Pasadena.

2. Who comforts Polly when her baby is being taken to be killed?
(a) The Arch Vicar.
(b) Loola.
(c) Chief.
(d) Miss Ethel Hook.

3. When Loola is assigned to her new job, at which location does she work?
(a) Hollywood cemetery.
(b) The Los Angeles Coliseum.
(c) Silver Ore Mine.
(d) The lab of the Director of Food Production.

4. What does the Arch Vicar tell Dr. Poole about his scientist friends?
(a) They were malnourished and fell to a pack of wolves.
(b) They are coming for him now, and he must make a choice as to where to go.
(c) They were wounded trying to find him, and there will be no rescue.
(d) They are all dead from gamma radiation.

5. What injures Miss Ethel Hook when she goes to look for Dr. Poole?
(a) An arrow shot by a primitive.
(b) Gamma radiation.
(c) A poisonous snake.
(d) Malnutrition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Polly's perspective on her deformed baby?

2. What is the name for the innermost chamber where the Arch Vicar resides?

3. What is the reason that sex has become seasonal for the primitive community?

4. As Dr. Poole and Loola have sex, what is the Arch Vicar doing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What discussion do the Chief, Arch Vicar, and Dr. Poole have concerning food production?

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

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

4. How does the poetry of Percy Shelley contribute to the development of romance between Dr. Poole and Loola?

5. Describe the initial entrance of the Arch Vicar.

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

7. Describe the events in which Dr. Poole and Loola are assigned new jobs in the primitive community.

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

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

10. What is peculiar about the babies being prepared for the Purification Ceremonies?

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