Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?
(a) Gleaming, modern
(b) Run-down, seedy
(c) Ordinary
(d) Classical, proud
2. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?
(a) People in socialized countries
(b) Urban poor people
(c) The very rich
(d) A few thousand savages worldwide
3. Why does the narrator say he reacts so violently to the ad in Chapter 1?
(a) Because he had always hoped to see an ad like this, but feels he had missed his chance
(b) Because he had once taught lessons in saving the world himself
(c) Because he had once wanted to save the world
(d) Because he had never had any response when he ran similar ads himself
4. How does the narrator characterize the 1960s?
(a) As a the time when culture was completely lost
(b) As the time of the children’s revolt
(c) As a period of hopeless despair
(d) As the great cultural leap forward
5. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?
(a) He will want to become religious
(b) He will go to war
(c) He will become a writer
(d) He will be isolated
Short Answer Questions
1. How long ago did the Takers’ story come into existence?
2. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?
3. In Chapter 3, how does Ishmael tell the narrator to think, when he tries to get him to see the myth of his culture?
4. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?
5. When does the narrator recognize Ishmael in Chapter 1?
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