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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago did the Takers’ story come into existence?
(a) 2,000 years ago
(b) 20-30 thousand years ago
(c) 10-12 thousand years ago
(d) 200-300 years ago

2. What end does Ishmael say he foresees for the Takers’ culture?
(a) Catastrophe
(b) Chaos
(c) Conquest
(d) Redemption

3. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?
(a) As a fight that was defeated
(b) As a movement that died in a crackdown
(c) As a cooptation by corporations
(d) As a dwindling to irrelevance

4. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?
(a) Gleaming, modern
(b) Ordinary
(c) Classical, proud
(d) Run-down, seedy

5. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?
(a) Rich and poor
(b) Adults and children
(c) First world and third world
(d) Civilized and primitive

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

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

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

5. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?

(see the answer key)

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