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1. When was "The Island of Dr. Moreau" first published?
2. This is the story of Edward Prendick, a more-or-less regular guy who who simply wanted to get from point A to point B via ship, when his ship rammed some debris and sank. What was the name of this ship?
3. After the boat sank, Edward found himself in a small dinghy, drifting about without food, water or shelter from the sun. He inevitably would have died if he was not picked up by another ship. What was the name of this other ship?
4. This new ship was captained by a man named Davis, who was a man of many faults and few virtues (at least we do not learn any in this book). This captain was so disagreeable, in fact, that he undoubtedly would not even have picked up Edward if it had not been for the efforts of one of the two passengers, who subsequently nursed Edward back to health and befriended him. What was the name of this passenger?
5. The two passengers of the ship were going to "an island", and were taking with them crates of animals and several servants. Edward noted something funny about the attendants' appearances, but said nothing. Which of these was NOT a type of animal that the two passengers were bringing with them?
6. As the boat approached the two passengers' island, the compulsive captain Davis decided he didn't like Edward and had him set back into his little dinghy to drift about in the ocean at the will of the wind and waves. Edward had a hysterical fit but was ignored. However, after a short while, the passengers who were going to the island took pity on him and sent a boat out to drag his dinghy to their land. Which of these was true about the island?
7. On the island was a small stone enclosure, in which the two men lived and worked in a mysterious laboratory. Edward was given a room and warned not to explore the rest of the building. The two men, however, forgot to warn him not to explore the island, and thus this was exactly what Edward set about doing. Soon he finds himself being chased along the shore by a terrifying animal-man, whom Edward just escapes from by giving him a stout whack on the forehead with a stone. What did Edward compare this animal-man to?
8. By now Edward had learned the names of the two men: Moreau and Montgomery. Now Edward remembered reading a pamphlet on a Dr. Moreau, infamous for conducting odd and rather disturbing experiments. After seeing such oddities as the above-mentioned animal-man, Edward becomes convinced that this is the same Moreau, now conducting sick and immoral experiments on men, turning them into animals, in the privacy of his own island. Was Edward's theory true?
9. Under the assumption that Moreau and Montgomery want to conduct experiments on him, Edward fights his way out of their stone enclosure with a chair-leg and then runs away across the island. While running away, he meets some new beast-people, and they take him to a sort of cave where he meets the "Sayer of the Law", a gray furry man-creature, who promptly begins chanting the Laws of the beast-people. Which of these was NOT one of the Laws?
10. Soon Moreau and Montgomery caught up with Edward. They were armed with revolvers and had dogs on leashes. With nowhere to turn, Edward threatened to kill himself in order to escape them. How did he plan to accomplish this feat?
11. Moreau and Montgomery calm Edward down, dropping their weapons and begging him to return with them so that they can explain. Edward believes them and comes with them back to the enclosure, where Moreau tells his version of the purpose of his odd experiments and hideaway island-laboratory. According to him, all the beast-men on the island were once some form of animal surgically molded and sculpted into men/women and taught to talk and act like people, "triumphs of vivisection". In fact, at that very moment, he was working on his latest specimen, a ____-woman. What fills the blank?
12. The beast-people were not suppose to eat flesh. So when Moreau and Montgomery found the mauled carcass of a rabbit, they immediately set out to find the culprit. What beast-person was the rabbit-killer?
13. What is the last thing in this book to happen to Dr. Moreau?
14. What is the last thing in this book to happen to Montgomery?
15. What is the last thing in this book to happen to Edward Prendick?
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