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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What kind of act does Ishmael say the agricultural revolution was?
(a) Intellectual
(b) Spiritual
(c) Social
(d) Technological
2. How does the narrator characterize the work, in Taker culture, of killing off nature?
(a) Tragic
(b) Sacrilegious
(c) Necessary
(d) Holy
3. What does Ishmael ask the narrator to leave and come back with in Chapter 11?
(a) An explanation for his ailments
(b) A plan for his future care
(c) A genuine apology
(d) A legitimate reason for asking about the Leavers
4. What does Ishmael say has been the result of the Takers’ interpretation of the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?
(a) To bring the world to its knees
(b) To bring the benefits of civilization to more people than ever
(c) To establish one or two just civilizations
(d) To produce a paradise on earth
5. Why is Ishmael reticent about telling the narrator what he wants to know in Chapter 11?
(a) He does not want to divulge the information
(b) He feels the narrator is merely curious
(c) He is irritated by the narrator’s failure to prevent his eviction
(d) He is afraid that the narrator will stop coming to him once he knows
6. What is the second thing that the narrator says the Takers do, which is not done in nature?
(a) Turn killing into an abstract law
(b) Deny competitors access to food
(c) Steal other animals’ food
(d) Sell their produce
7. What knowledge does Ishmael say the gods have that allows them to rule the world?
(a) Knowledge of death
(b) Knowledge of good and evil
(c) Knowledge of justice
(d) Knowledge of life
8. What scenario does Ishmael introduce to test the narrator’s ideas about his imaginary culture?
(a) An election
(b) A warmonger
(c) A sick person
(d) An execution
9. How does Ishmael describe the first farmers?
(a) Blunderers
(b) Technocrats
(c) Scientists
(d) Bureaucrats
10. For whose benefit does Ishmael say the Takers accumulate and preserve knowledge?
(a) Their food supply
(b) The elect
(c) Themselves
(d) The world
11. Where is Ishmael’s reference to the Second Murderer drawn from?
(a) Homer’s The Iliad
(b) Plato’s Republic
(c) Mamet’s Oleanna
(d) Shakespeare’s Macbeth
12. What does the law Ishmael believes the narartor is looking for in Chapter 8 prevent?
(a) Single-species dominance
(b) Injustice
(c) Civilization
(d) A howling chaos
13. After the narrator describes his law, how does Ishmael reword it?
(a) You can compete but you cannot wage war
(b) The health of a community is found in the strength of its top predators
(c) You can eat your fill, but after a certain young age, the young have to kill their own food
(d) You can murder, but only to eat
14. What is the big change that has taken place at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Ishmael and the narrator meet in a new location
(b) Ishmael is speaking aloud
(c) Ishmael is on the narrator’s side of the glass
(d) Ishmael has been evicted
15. How does Ishmael say the aeronauts proceeded to learn to fly?
(a) By following inspirations from their dreams
(b) By controlled experiments
(c) By research and observation
(d) By trial and error
Short Answer Questions
1. What method does the narrator say he would use, to deduce the laws of the group Ishmael describes in Chapter 7?
2. How does Ishmael propose, in Chapter 7, to learn how they can find out for themselves how to live?
3. What is the literary term for Ishmael’s saying that he is cold?
4. What does the narrator say when Ishmael asks if he would go back to prehistoric times?
5. Where does Ishmael say, in Chapter 7, they should look for a set of laws about how to live?
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