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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 the narrator reunite with Ishmael in Chapter 10?
(a) At another office building
(b) At a motel
(c) In the woods
(d) At a carnival

2. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?
(a) That we have to take care of it
(b) That we can do what we want with it
(c) That we owe someone an enormous debt of gratitude
(d) That we have to find its proper owners

3. What does Ishmael say the world was created for, in the narrator’s story in Chapter 4?
(a) No purpose at all
(b) The fulfillment of divine ideas
(c) Man’s use
(d) The fulfillment of each of its creatures

4. What does Ishmael elicit from the narrator in Chapter 4 regarding his creation myth?
(a) That his creation myth is damaging the earth
(b) That his creation myth is centered on mankind
(c) That his creation myth is founded on falsehoods
(d) That his creation myth excludes the perspective of women

5. What does Ishmael say ‘Adam’ means?
(a) The first man
(b) Life
(c) Breath
(d) Mankind

Short Answer Questions

1. What knowledge does Ishmael say the early flyers would have fond useful in their attempts?

2. In Chapter 4, how does the narrator say men used to live before they became men?

3. What temptation does Ishmael say Adam succumbed to when he took the fruit from Eve in the Bible story?

4. From whose perspective does Ishmael tell a rival creation story in Chapter 4?

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

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