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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a koan?
(a) A secret.
(b) A riddle
(c) A spur to meditation
(d) A paradox

2. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?
(a) If he wanted to farm, he would have to kill off the hunter-gatherers
(b) If he stayed in one place, he would be subject to wars
(c) If he traded with other cultures, he would lose his women
(d) If he stayed in one place, he would exhaust his food supply

3. How does Ishmael say that men see the ruin of nature, according to the narrator’s culture’s mythology?
(a) As the result of God’s plan
(b) As the plan nature had for mankind
(c) As the visitation of god’s judgment
(d) As the price to be paid for ruling the earth

4. How does Ishmael characterize the notion that agriculture started in the Fertile Crescent?
(a) He says that it is an old hat
(b) He says that it is undisputed
(c) He says that it has not been proved yet
(d) He says that it is subject to much debate

5. When does the narrator’s creation story begin?
(a) 250 thousand years ago
(b) 4 billion years ago
(c) 10- 15 billion years ago
(d) 2 thousand years ago

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Ishmael’s expression when he gets the narrator to see that the idea that man should rule the earth is a myth?

2. Where, in the narrator’s account, does the destruction of the earth get reversed?

3. How does the narrator characterize the work, in Taker culture, of killing off nature?

4. What does Ishmael say has been the result of the Takers’ interpretation of the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?

5. What does the narrator say was removed when man learned to farm?

(see the answer key)

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