JORGE RAMIREZ GALLARDO
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The history of zombies

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Question 1 of 6

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According to the text, ___.

Select one of the following:

  • zombies are represented in different ways in different TV programmes, films and books

  • our current understanding of what a zombie is comes from a seminal sixties film

  • people do not find zombies as frightening now as they did in the past

  • people like zombies because they show us the dark side of humankind

Explanation

Question 2 of 6

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'Zombie' ___.

Select one of the following:

  • is a Haitian and West African religion

  • is a witch doctor who practises magic

  • comes from the Kongo word 'nzambi'

  • means 'victim'

Explanation

Question 3 of 6

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In Haitian culture, zombies are ___.

Select one of the following:

  • living people who are kept in a death-like state by poisoning

  • dead people who have been brought back to life by witch doctors

  • people who are being punished for disloyalty to the secret police

  • witch doctors who have poisoned themselves with their own medicine

Explanation

Question 4 of 6

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Clairvius Narcisse ___.

Select one of the following:

  • claimed he was a real-life zombie

  • said working on a sugar plantation turned people into zombies

  • took 'zombie powder' to appear dead in order to escape the sugar plantation where he worked

  • told a Harvard scientist that he knew how to turn people into zombies

Explanation

Question 5 of 6

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Wade Davis ___.

Select one of the following:

  • identified the poisons in Clairvius Narcisse's blood

  • experimented with different substances naturally available where Clairvius Narcisse lived

  • thought Clairvius Narcisse's condition was psychological

  • asked local witch doctors how to make a zombie

Explanation

Question 6 of 6

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'The Serpent and the Rainbow' ___.

Select one of the following:

  • proved Narcisse's theory with rigorous scientific evidence

  • presented the case with scepticism

  • was popular with zombie fans but not scientists

  • was a fictional account based on the real-life story

Explanation

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