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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?
(a) He says that his parents have threatened to disown him if he does not follow in their footsteps
(b) He says that his neighbors exclude him if he expressed doubt about the value of the culture
(c) He says that if he doesn’t work, he won’t eat
(d) He says that he has to go to admit his belief in court

2. In Chapter 5, how does the narrator characterize the world without man?
(a) Raw material
(b) Post-apocalyptic dreamscape
(c) Paradise
(d) Bloody jungle

3. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?
(a) Hitler’s story about the Aryan people
(b) Hitler’s international support
(c) Hitler’s charisma
(d) Hitler’s violence

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

5. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 5, man did once he made the development that distinguished him from his ancestors?
(a) Set about mastering the world
(b) Set about telling stories about the exile from the Garden
(c) Set about discovering himself
(d) Set about learning from the animals

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?

2. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

3. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?

4. In Chapter 6, Ishmael says that the narrator’s account of man’s progress stopped being applicable—how long ago?

5. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?

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