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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Ishmael’s expression when he gets the narrator to see that the idea that man should rule the earth is a myth?
(a) Smug
(b) Triumphant
(c) Ironic
(d) Glum

2. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?
(a) He is unaware of the details of Nazi rule
(b) He is a student of it
(c) He has always gone out of his way to avoid learning about it
(d) He is moderately well informed about it

3. What does the narrator answer when Ishmael asks him, in Chapter 5, what man’s destiny is?
(a) To fulfill himself
(b) To take care of other people
(c) To turn the planet into a garden
(d) To build civilization

4. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 5, is man’s purpose on the earth?
(a) To rule it
(b) To fulfill it
(c) To dream it
(d) To perfect it

5. What does Ishmael say he can offer the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) A new perception of the world
(b) A network of people who resist culture
(c) A set of practical tools for changing the world
(d) Access to mystical experience

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he does with the newspaper the first time he reads Ishmael’s ad?

2. How does Ishmael say Takers regard the world?

3. How does Ishmael say the gods must have seen the world before man, according to the narrator’s culture’s story?

4. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?

5. Why does the narrator say he answers the newspaper ad?

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