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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, how does the narrator say men used to live before they became men?
(a) Like the least noble creatures
(b) Like the chosen creatures
(c) He says that they were always men
(d) Like every other creature

2. What is the narrator’s first strategy for reconnecting to Ishmael in Chapter 10?
(a) Finding Mrs. Sokolow
(b) Apologizing to him
(c) Driving around looking
(d) Posting an ad

3. What keeps the narrator from returning to Ishmael the next day, after discussing Adam and Eve?
(a) A visiting uncle
(b) Car trouble
(c) Resistance to Ishmael’s teaching
(d) His work

4. How does the narrator continue his dialogue with Ishmael in a new setting in Chapter 10?
(a) He apologizes until Ishmael relents
(b) He sneaks Ishmael out of the office building
(c) He convinced the Sokolows to pay for a place for him
(d) He bribes Ishmael’s caretaker

5. What is the literary term for the running comparison to aeronauts?
(a) Anaphora
(b) Parody
(c) Parallel syntax
(d) Analogy

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is new about Ishmael’s expression at the beginning of Chapter 7?

2. How does Ishmael say Takers regard the world?

3. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 7, Mother Culture says about humanity’s relation to nature’s laws?

4. What does the narrator find when he returns to the office building in Chapter 10 after several days away from Ishmael?

5. What method does the narrator say he would use, to deduce the laws of the group Ishmael describes in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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