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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: The Script, pages 100-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book does Dr. Poole read from while courting Loola?
(a) A book of Shelley's poetry.
(b) The Bible.
(c) William Tallis' Ape and Essence.
(d) Shakespeare's love sonnets.

2. What is the most obvious difference between Arch Vicar's community and the Hots?
(a) The Hots have leprous skin conditions due to radiation.
(b) The Hots do not possess a written language.
(c) The Hots have a formal, highly controlling religious hierarchy.
(d) The Hots do not place restrictions on mating/romance.

3. What explanation does the Arch Vicar have for his community's restricted mating patterns?
(a) It is necessary for survival.
(b) It is the Law of Belial.
(c) It is due to the powerful influence of the Hots community.
(d) It is due to excessive gamma radiation.

4. In the human condition, what does fear NOT cast out, according to the narrator?
(a) Desperation.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Goodness.

5. How long has it taken for the primitive community to establish their pattern of mating rituals?
(a) Forty days and nights.
(b) Two hundred years.
(c) One year.
(d) Two generations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the primitives unable to make clothes?

2. Near which major city do the scientists finally land?

3. What does Dr. Poole tell Chief about why New Zealand was spared in the World War?

4. The primitives' religious leader presses a young woman about what matter, eventually beating her?

5. Why is Miss Ethel Hook administered a sedative by the crew of the Canterbury?

(see the answer key)

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