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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Ishmael say is fueling the Third World population explosion?
(a) First world farmers
(b) Women
(c) Third World farmers
(d) The World Bank

3. After the narrator describes his law, how does Ishmael reword it?
(a) You can eat your fill, but after a certain young age, the young have to kill their own food
(b) The health of a community is found in the strength of its top predators
(c) You can compete but you cannot wage war
(d) You can murder, but only to eat

4. What does Ishmael say is the premise of the narrator’s creation myth?
(a) That the world is made for man
(b) That man is an exile in his consciousness
(c) That the world is a mystery no one understands
(d) That man belongs in the midst, not on the top of the community of life

5. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?
(a) Urban poor people
(b) A few thousand savages worldwide
(c) People in socialized countries
(d) The very rich

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a koan?

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

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

4. Where does Ishmael say, in Chapter 7, they should look for a set of laws about how to live?

5. What scenario does Ishmael introduce to test the narrator’s ideas about his imaginary culture?

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