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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 will happen to the deformation rate of babies in fifty years, according to the Arch Vicar?

2. Why is Chief displeased with Dr. Poole and his opinion of food production?

3. What job is given to Dr. Poole in the primitive community?

4. What explanation does the Arch Vicar have for his community's restricted mating patterns?

5. Loola notes that Dr. Poole is different from the primitive men in what way?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the Arch Vicar's theory of history? What does this have to do with the "Order of Things"?

5. List the allusions/references found in this section of the text.

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

7. Why does Loola feel that Dr. Poole is different from other men she has known?

8. Describe the final scene of the film involving William Tallis' gravestone.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how the back story and plot points of the script "Ape and Essence" reveal the author's own fears about the threat of nuclear war and annihilation.

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

How is organized religion depicted in Ape and Essence? Do you believe Huxley intends the Arch Vicar's religion to provide a characterization of all of organized religion? How might the Belial religion compare to modern Christian religion? Is organized religion another of society's ills in Huxley's view?

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