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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?
(a) He will be isolated
(b) He will want to become religious
(c) He will go to war
(d) He will become a writer

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

4. What does Ishmael say is the pinnacle of the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) A just society
(b) Man himself
(c) God’s laws
(d) Literature

5. Why does the narrator have a hard time identifying the creation myth of his culture?
(a) Because creation myths are not myths to people who tell them
(b) Because the creation myth is a mystical secret
(c) Because he has been blinded by a limiting ideology
(d) Because he never took the religious classes where he would have learned it

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?

2. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

3. What is a koan?

4. Where does the narrator say the conquest narrative in Chapter 6 ends?

5. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?

(see the answer key)

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