Before taking Quiz One, watch the video at the conclusion of this quick post.
The quiz contains thirty questions, Multiple Choice and True/False. The quiz covers the two films we watched, The White Zombie and I Walked With a Zombie, the critical readings, and four short stories--all the considerable work you have done over the past two weeks. This quiz will be available until Monday at midnight, Feb 6. If you have problems or questions, just contact me.
Before you take the quiz, make sure to watch the video:
As your three critical texts for the class indicate, W. B. Seabrook's book The Magic Island (1929) brought the word zombie in the American lexicon and finds expression in The White Zombie and I Walked With a Zombie.
In the chapter "Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields," Seabrook relates a story about zombies told to him by his friend Polynice, who eventually takes Seabrook to see zombies.
The chapter likewise relates the reading to the author by Dr. Antoine Villiers of Article 249 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Haiti, words often repeated--the Christian priest read the description in The White Zombie,
Anyway, I thought that you might like to hear these well-known pages repeated, for they add to your appreciation of the laborers at Murder's sugar factory in The White Zombie; in many ways, Val Lewton's less sensational I Walked with a Zombie offers a more sympathetic depiction of Voodoo in Haiti, one more in line with The Magic Island. In the following video (15 minutes), I read a few pages from The Magic Island:
