Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Test | Final Test - Easy

Daniel Quinn
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Test | Final Test - Easy

Daniel Quinn
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 143 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ishmael describe the first farmers?
(a) Scientists
(b) Blunderers
(c) Technocrats
(d) Bureaucrats

2. What does the narrator say when Ishmael asks if he would go back to prehistoric times?
(a) He refuses
(b) He hems and haws and does not answer
(c) He says that he would go gladly
(d) He qualifies his agreement

3. What does Ishmael ask the narrator to leave and come back with in Chapter 11?
(a) An explanation for his ailments
(b) A genuine apology
(c) A legitimate reason for asking about the Leavers
(d) A plan for his future care

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

5. What does Ishmael say ‘Adam’ means?
(a) Life
(b) Breath
(c) The first man
(d) Mankind

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

7. What method does the narrator say he would use, to deduce the laws of the group Ishmael describes in Chapter 7?
(a) Controlled experiments
(b) Close observation
(c) Interviews
(d) Library research

8. What temptation does Ishmael say Adam succumbed to when he took the fruit from Eve in the Bible story?
(a) The temptation to rule over men
(b) The temptation to have a glorious name
(c) The temptation to have power over Eve
(d) The temptation to live without limit

9. Where does the narrator reunite with Ishmael in Chapter 10?
(a) In the woods
(b) At a motel
(c) At a carnival
(d) At another office building

10. How does Ishmael say people think about prehistory, before the agricultural revolution?
(a) Appealing
(b) Loathsome
(c) Intriguing
(d) Idealistically

11. What does Ishmael say is ironic about the story the Takers adopted about two thousand years ago?
(a) It had been created by their enemies
(b) It did not represent their beliefs
(c) It had started as a joke
(d) The story did not originally have anything to do with them

12. What is the literary term for Ishmael’s saying that he is cold?
(a) Falling action
(b) Denouement
(c) Foreshadowing
(d) Prophecy

13. What keeps the narrator from returning to Ishmael the next day, after discussing Adam and Eve?
(a) Resistance to Ishmael’s teaching
(b) Car trouble
(c) His work
(d) A visiting uncle

14. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 8, he would be looking for?
(a) What the people did
(b) What the people did not do
(c) Places where people’s stories were contradicted by their actions
(d) What the people said about their behavior

15. After the narrator describes his law, how does Ishmael reword it?
(a) You can murder, but only to eat
(b) You can eat your fill, but after a certain young age, the young have to kill their own food
(c) You can compete but you cannot wage war
(d) The health of a community is found in the strength of its top predators

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the big change that has taken place at the beginning of Chapter 9?

2. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 7, Mother Culture says about humanity’s relation to nature’s laws?

3. What is the narrator’s first strategy for reconnecting to Ishmael in Chapter 10?

4. When does Ishmael say the event he put at 8,000 B.C. on his timeline ended?

5. What new name for the Takers do Ishmael and the narrator arrive at in their discussion in Chapter 12?

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