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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?
(a) A phonograph
(b) A set of tools
(c) A bookcase
(d) A stove

2. How does Ishmael define a story?
(a) A set of events aligned by a human experience of them
(b) A fiction that makes factual life possible
(c) A scenario interrelating man, the world and the gods
(d) A manifestation of the self seeking its center through experience

3. What does Ishmael say he wants, in Chapter 4, when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?
(a) Terror
(b) Humility
(c) Astonishment
(d) Gratitude

4. How does Ishmael say Takers regard the world?
(a) As a garden of provisions
(b) As an animal to be domesticated
(c) As life-support for human beings
(d) As a gift to be cherished

5. Why does the narrator have a hard time identifying the creation myth of his culture?
(a) Because he has been blinded by a limiting ideology
(b) Because the creation myth is a mystical secret
(c) Because creation myths are not myths to people who tell them
(d) Because he never took the religious classes where he would have learned it

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?

2. When does the narrator recognize Ishmael in Chapter 1?

3. What is a koan?

4. What does Ishmael say he can offer the narrator in Chapter 3?

5. What is the narrator’s reaction when he hears the rival creation story Ishmael tells in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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