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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What looming crisis does Ishmael imply will correct the ‘Takers’’ excesses?
(a) Drought
(b) Famine
(c) Population explosion
(d) Warfare

2. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?
(a) Legendary birthplace of agriculture
(b) A distraction
(c) The birthplace of culture
(d) Center of the world

3. What does Mr. Partridge tell the narrator when he inquires at the Sokolow house in Chapter 10?
(a) Where he can find Mrs. Sokolow
(b) That Mr. Sokolow’s daughter had died
(c) Why the rent was cut off
(d) Where to find Ishmael

4. What does Ishmael say ‘Adam’ means?
(a) Mankind
(b) Life
(c) The first man
(d) Breath

5. What is the literary term that describes the narrator’s directly addressing the reader?
(a) Personification
(b) Direct discourse
(c) Indirect discourse
(d) Apostrophe

Short Answer Questions

1. What knowledge do the gods discover that allows them to rule the world without being criminals or negligent?

2. What does the narrator answer when Ishmael asks him, in Chapter 5, what man’s destiny is?

3. What kind of act does Ishmael say the agricultural revolution was?

4. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

5. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?

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