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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 a creature of enormous importance
(b) Man must be insignificant
(c) Man must attain value as he understands the gods’ laws
(d) Certain men must be more important than others

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

4. What scenario does Ishmael describe in Chapter 7, which horrifies the narrator?
(a) The meetings of the gods, where the gods do nothing but bicker
(b) A jungle where the animals have committee meetings
(c) A city where the neighbors eat each other
(d) A city where every plant and tree is ordered

5. How does Ishmael propose, in Chapter 7, to learn how they can find out for themselves how to live?
(a) By having mystical experiences
(b) By consulting books
(c) By talking to prophets
(d) By looking at what is actually there

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael get the narrator to recognize the limitation of his creation myth?

2. What does Ishmael say he wants, in Chapter 4, when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?

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

4. What knowledge do the gods discover that allows them to rule the world without being criminals or negligent?

5. What does the narrator say is new about Ishmael’s expression at the beginning of Chapter 7?

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