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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what law does Ishmael say he is looking for?
(a) The law that keeps individuals content within the community
(b) The law of how to pass knowledge from one generation to another
(c) The law that keeps the community together
(d) The law of cultural evolution

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

3. What does Ishmael elicit from the narrator in Chapter 4 regarding his creation myth?
(a) That his creation myth is damaging the earth
(b) That his creation myth is founded on falsehoods
(c) That his creation myth excludes the perspective of women
(d) That his creation myth is centered on mankind

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

5. What distinction does Ishmael point out between Leaver and Taker cultures?
(a) The absence of prophets in Leaver culture
(b) The absence of medicine in Leaver culture
(c) The absence of guilt in Leaver culture
(d) The absence of the fear of death in Leaver culture

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael describe civilization’s progress in Chapter 7?

2. How does Ishmael characterize the law the narrator is looking for?

3. What scenario does Ishmael introduce to test the narrator’s ideas about his imaginary culture?

4. How does Ishmael characterize a community that does not live by the peace-keeping law?

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

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