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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What scenario does Ishmael describe in Chapter 7, which horrifies the narrator?
(a) A jungle where the animals have committee meetings
(b) A city where the neighbors eat each other
(c) A city where every plant and tree is ordered
(d) The meetings of the gods, where the gods do nothing but bicker
2. How does Ishmael get the narrator to recognize the limitation of his creation myth?
(a) By asking him to consider whether his own discontent was part of evolution as well
(b) By asking him to describe the same story from an ant’s perspective
(c) By asking him whether evolution continued beyond man
(d) By asking him to think about the world without people in it
3. 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’s caretaker was not paying the rent
(b) Ishmael was getting old
(c) Ishmael met another student
(d) Ishmael was insulted by the narrator’s days away
4. What subsequent interruption kept the narrator from returning for another few days in Chapter 10?
(a) A woman
(b) A work deadline
(c) Laziness
(d) A medical condition
5. What knowledge does Ishmael say the early flyers would have fond useful in their attempts?
(a) The history of previous attempts to fly
(b) The dreams flight had inspired
(c) The laws of aerodynamics
(d) The mechanics of birds’ wings
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 7, Mother Culture says about humanity’s relation to nature’s laws?
2. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?
3. What looming crisis does Ishmael imply will correct the ‘Takers’’ excesses?
4. Where does the narrator reunite with Ishmael in Chapter 10?
5. How does Ishmael propose, in Chapter 7, to learn how they can find out for themselves how to live?
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