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

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 a community lacks, when it has lost its diversity?
(a) Rigidity of roles
(b) Survival value
(c) A clear purpose
(d) Checks and balances

3. What does Ishmael say is mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The implied redemption
(b) The chronology
(c) The facts themselves
(d) The arrangement of the facts

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

5. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?
(a) A little at a time
(b) In his earliest experience with his family
(c) All at once in church
(d) Systematically, in school

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?

2. What does the law Ishmael believes the narartor is looking for in Chapter 8 prevent?

3. Where does Ishmael say people were looking, when they came to the conclusion that man had undermined the universe’s plan, that he would rule nature?

4. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 6, is the problem with his culture’s story?

5. What does the narrator say the ad in Chapter 1 was looking for?

(see the answer key)

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