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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What keeps the narrator from returning to Ishmael the next day, after discussing Adam and Eve?
(a) Car trouble
(b) His work
(c) Resistance to Ishmael’s teaching
(d) A visiting uncle

3. How does the narrator continue his dialogue with Ishmael in a new setting in Chapter 10?
(a) He apologizes until Ishmael relents
(b) He bribes Ishmael’s caretaker
(c) He convinced the Sokolows to pay for a place for him
(d) He sneaks Ishmael out of the office building

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

5. From whose perspective does Ishmael tell a rival creation story in Chapter 4?
(a) A jellyfish
(b) An indigenous person in Asia
(c) Someone from another planet
(d) A gorilla

Short Answer Questions

1. What method does the narrator say he would use, to deduce the laws of the group Ishmael describes in Chapter 7?

2. 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?

3. How does Ishmael characterize the gods in his description of their debates?

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

5. How does Ishmael describe civilization’s progress in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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