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

Daniel Quinn
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 143 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

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

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 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ishmael characterize the gods in his description of their debates?
(a) As troublemakers
(b) As squabblers
(c) As wise men
(d) As short-sighted people

2. What reason explains the change of circumstances when the narrator returns to the office building after several days away from Ishmael in Chapter 10?
(a) Ishmael was getting old
(b) Ishmael met another student
(c) Ishmael was insulted by the narrator’s days away
(d) Ishmael’s caretaker was not paying the rent

3. How does the narrator characterize the work, in Taker culture, of killing off nature?
(a) Necessary
(b) Holy
(c) Tragic
(d) Sacrilegious

4. What is a paean?
(a) A death knell
(b) A praise song
(c) A requiem
(d) A parody

5. How does Ishmael propose, in Chapter 7, to learn how they can find out for themselves how to live?
(a) By consulting books
(b) By looking at what is actually there
(c) By talking to prophets
(d) By having mystical experiences

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, how does Ishmael define culture?

2. What does the narrator find when he returns to the office building in Chapter 10 after several days away from Ishmael?

3. What does the narrator tell Ishmael he wants to know in Chapter 11?

4. What keeps the narrator from returning to Ishmael the next day, after discussing Adam and Eve?

5. What does the narrator say is the first thing that the Takers do that no one else in nature does?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where has Ishmael gone when the narrator shows up again at the office building, and how does the narrator reconnect with him?

2. What surprising behavior does Ishmael describe for the narrator in an imaginary hospitable city?

3. What are the gods wary of, in letting Adam have the knowledge of good and evil?

4. What keeps the narrator from returning to the office building for a few days?

5. What major change has taken place in the dialogue in Chapter 9, and what has brought this change about?

6. The narrator says that he wants to know the Leavers’ story so he can stop the destruction of the Takers’ story. Why does Ishmael say this is insufficient?

7. What argument does the narrator offer for why the Takers’ culture is superior to the Leavers’?

8. What reading does Ishmael give the Bible story of Cain and Abel?

9. Why does the narrator say that he is depressed when he does not see Ishmael for a few days?

10. How does Ishmael characterize the work of competing for food in Taker culture?

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