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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?
(a) Comfort
(b) Wisdom
(c) Anger
(d) Emptiness

2. How does the narrator say, in Chapter 4, that he got himself to see the middle of the story?
(a) By thinking about writing it as a treatment for Nova
(b) By thinking about the moments when he learned the story himself
(c) By thinking about telling it to a child
(d) By thinking about what a Martian observer would see

3. What is the second thing that the narrator says the Takers do, which is not done in nature?
(a) Steal other animals’ food
(b) Turn killing into an abstract law
(c) Sell their produce
(d) Deny competitors access to food

4. How does the narrator continue his dialogue with Ishmael in a new setting in Chapter 10?
(a) He convinced the Sokolows to pay for a place for him
(b) He bribes Ishmael’s caretaker
(c) He apologizes until Ishmael relents
(d) He sneaks Ishmael out of the office building

5. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?
(a) Adults and children
(b) Civilized and primitive
(c) Rich and poor
(d) First world and third world

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael respond when the narrator says that he does not believe that he is part of a story?

2. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

3. What item does the narrator bring Ishmael at the carnival?

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

5. Where does Ishmael say mankind’s flaw is?

(see the answer key)

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