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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?
(a) To weed out the weak from the strong
(b) To give the listener power
(c) To put the listener to sleep
(d) To teach the listener how to fulfill him or herself

2. How does Ishmael get the narrator to recognize the limitation of his creation myth?
(a) By asking him whether evolution continued beyond man
(b) By asking him to describe the same story from an ant’s perspective
(c) By asking him to think about the world without people in it
(d) By asking him to consider whether his own discontent was part of evolution as well

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

4. How does Ishmael describe civilization’s progress in Chapter 7?
(a) As the free-fall of an aircraft that does not accord with the laws of aerodynamics
(b) As a garden that has worn out the soil
(c) As a corpse that has been kept alive artificially
(d) As a building built on water

5. How does Ishmael say the aeronauts proceeded to learn to fly?
(a) By controlled experiments
(b) By research and observation
(c) By following inspirations from their dreams
(d) By trial and error

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ishmael, which is NOT a ‘trick’ the gods played on the Takers?

2. What does Ishmael say ‘Adam’ means?

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

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

5. Where does Ishmael say, in Chapter 7, they should look for a set of laws about how to live?

(see the answer key)

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