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The history of zombies
JORGE RAMIREZ GALLARDO
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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
According to the text, ___.
Respuesta
  • 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

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
'Zombie' ___.
Respuesta
  • is a Haitian and West African religion
  • is a witch doctor who practises magic
  • comes from the Kongo word 'nzambi'
  • means 'victim'

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
In Haitian culture, zombies are ___.
Respuesta
  • 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

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
Clairvius Narcisse ___.
Respuesta
  • 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

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
Wade Davis ___.
Respuesta
  • 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

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
'The Serpent and the Rainbow' ___.
Respuesta
  • 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
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