Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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 | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael characterize the notion that agriculture started in the Fertile Crescent?

2. What is the literary term that describes the narrator’s directly addressing the reader?

3. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?

4. Why does the narrator say he answers the newspaper ad?

5. How does the narrator say, in Chapter 4, that he got himself to see the middle of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you characterize Ishmael’s tone with the narrator in general, as they talk regularly?

2. Describe the narrator’s first encounter with Ishmael.

3. What does the sign that the narrator notices behind the gorilla say, and what does the narrator interpret it to mean?

4. What is the rival creation story Ishmael tells the narrator?

5. What is the narrator’s reaction when he finally recognizes his creation myth as a myth?

6. How does Ishmael say that their discussion is like sightseeing?

7. How does Ishmael characterize the earth before the development of human culture?

8. How does Ishmael say Hitler captivated the German people?

9. What does Ishmael say the Takers’ relationship to the Community of Life is?

10. What does Ishmael say the narrator’s creation myth justifies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

Essay Topic 2

When the narrator tells Ishmael that he has a question, Ishmael says that asking questions is what the narrator is there for. How seriously is this statement intended, do you think? Is that the narrator’s primary role—asking questions to elicit Ishmael’s stories—or does he have other purposes that are more important than that?

Essay Topic 3

What kind of compromise is possible between people who see things Ishmael’s way, and people who exemplify ‘Taker’ culture? Is compromise possible?

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