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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ishmael, which is NOT a ‘trick’ the gods played on the Takers?
(a) Not exempting man from the laws that govern populations of animals and plants.
(b) Failing to create man after a special fashion unique in nature
(c) Refusing to put the world in the center of the solar system and universe
(d) Neglecting to write down their laws for the benefit of men

2. What does Ishmael say is the premise of the narrator’s creation myth?
(a) That the world is a mystery no one understands
(b) That man belongs in the midst, not on the top of the community of life
(c) That man is an exile in his consciousness
(d) That the world is made for man

3. What does Ishmael say man’s importance must be, in the eyes of the gods, in the narrator’s creation myth?
(a) Certain men must be more important than others
(b) Man must attain value as he understands the gods’ laws
(c) Man must be a creature of enormous importance
(d) Man must be insignificant

4. What is the narrator’s first strategy for reconnecting to Ishmael in Chapter 10?
(a) Apologizing to him
(b) Posting an ad
(c) Finding Mrs. Sokolow
(d) Driving around looking

5. What is the literary term for the running comparison to aeronauts?
(a) Parallel syntax
(b) Parody
(c) Anaphora
(d) Analogy

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator reunite with Ishmael in Chapter 10?

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

3. How does Ishmael say Takers regard the world?

4. What looming crisis does Ishmael imply will correct the ‘Takers’’ excesses?

5. What does Mr. Partridge tell the narrator when he inquires at the Sokolow house in Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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