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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What distinction does Ishmael point out between Leaver and Taker cultures?
(a) The absence of guilt in Leaver culture
(b) The absence of prophets in Leaver culture
(c) The absence of the fear of death in Leaver culture
(d) The absence of medicine in Leaver culture

2. When does Ishmael say that human history began?
(a) 300 thousand years ago
(b) 30 thousand years ago
(c) 3 thousand years ago
(d) 3 million years ago

3. What is the ‘but’ Ishmael sees in the narrator’s story: “The world was made for man to conquer, and turn into a paradise--except for what”?
(a) The natural world would not support all of men’s plans
(b) Man was always going to be able to imagine more than he could get for himself
(c) Wealth was never going to be distributed equitably
(d) People screwed it up

4. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?
(a) When he learned to read
(b) When he realized that his name was not his
(c) When he realized that he was a gorilla
(d) When he realized that he had a name

5. What does the narrator say he feels when he takes a few days off from his discussion with Ishmael in Chapter 8?
(a) Depression
(b) Hope
(c) Irritation
(d) Optimism

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say the narrator needs to tell him in Chapter 8 before the dialogue can resume?

2. How does Ishmael say the followers of Copernicus convinced people to change their view of heliocentrism?

3. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

4. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?

5. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 5, is man’s purpose on the earth?

(see the answer key)

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