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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Ishmael say Takers regard the world?
(a) As an animal to be domesticated
(b) As life-support for human beings
(c) As a garden of provisions
(d) As a gift to be cherished
2. In Chapter 7, what law does Ishmael say he is looking for?
(a) The law of how to pass knowledge from one generation to another
(b) The law that keeps individuals content within the community
(c) The law that keeps the community together
(d) The law of cultural evolution
3. According to Ishmael, which is NOT a ‘trick’ the gods played on the Takers?
(a) Refusing to put the world in the center of the solar system and universe
(b) Failing to create man after a special fashion unique in nature
(c) Neglecting to write down their laws for the benefit of men
(d) Not exempting man from the laws that govern populations of animals and plants.
4. What temptation does Ishmael say Adam succumbed to when he took the fruit from Eve in the Bible story?
(a) The temptation to rule over men
(b) The temptation to have power over Eve
(c) The temptation to have a glorious name
(d) The temptation to live without limit
5. 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 was getting old
(b) Ishmael was insulted by the narrator’s days away
(c) Ishmael met another student
(d) Ishmael’s caretaker was not paying the rent
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Ishmael say ‘Eve’ means?
2. How does the narrator continue his dialogue with Ishmael in a new setting in Chapter 10?
3. What is the literary term for the running comparison to aeronauts?
4. What subsequent interruption kept the narrator from returning for another few days in Chapter 10?
5. What method does the narrator say he would use, to deduce the laws of the group Ishmael describes in Chapter 7?
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