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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 insulted by the narrator’s days away
(c) Ishmael was getting old
(d) Ishmael met another student

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

3. In Chapter 4, how does the narrator say men used to live before they became men?
(a) Like the least noble creatures
(b) Like every other creature
(c) Like the chosen creatures
(d) He says that they were always men

4. What does Mr. Partridge tell the narrator when he inquires at the Sokolow house in Chapter 10?
(a) Where he can find Mrs. Sokolow
(b) Where to find Ishmael
(c) Why the rent was cut off
(d) That Mr. Sokolow’s daughter had died

5. Where does Ishmael say, in Chapter 7, they should look for a set of laws about how to live?
(a) Anthropology
(b) Human behavior
(c) Literature
(d) The heavens

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literary term for the running comparison to aeronauts?

2. What scenario does Ishmael describe in Chapter 7, which horrifies the narrator?

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

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

5. In Chapter 4, why does the narrator say he does not display the emotion he wants when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?

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