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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Ishmael’s reference to the Second Murderer drawn from?
(a) Homer’s The Iliad
(b) Plato’s Republic
(c) Shakespeare’s Macbeth
(d) Mamet’s Oleanna

2. 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 the great cultural leap forward
(d) As a period of hopeless despair

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

4. What is the ‘but’ Ishmael sees in the narrator’s story: “The world was made for man to conquer, and turn into a paradise--except for what”?
(a) The natural world would not support all of men’s plans
(b) Man was always going to be able to imagine more than he could get for himself
(c) Wealth was never going to be distributed equitably
(d) People screwed it up

5. What does the narrator say is new about Ishmael’s expression at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Twinkle-eyed playfulness
(b) Mocking raillery
(c) Gloominess
(d) A searching gaze

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?

2. How does Ishmael characterize the Takers’ response to the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?

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

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

5. What does Ishmael say a community lacks, when it has lost its diversity?

(see the answer key)

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