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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Ishmael say that men see the ruin of nature, according to the narrator’s culture’s mythology?
(a) As the result of God’s plan
(b) As the plan nature had for mankind
(c) As the price to be paid for ruling the earth
(d) As the visitation of god’s judgment
2. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?
(a) First world and third world
(b) Adults and children
(c) Rich and poor
(d) Civilized and primitive
3. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?
(a) If he stayed in one place, he would exhaust his food supply
(b) If he traded with other cultures, he would lose his women
(c) If he stayed in one place, he would be subject to wars
(d) If he wanted to farm, he would have to kill off the hunter-gatherers
4. How does Ishmael say the followers of Copernicus convinced people to change their view of heliocentrism?
(a) By discrediting the proponents of heliocentrism
(b) By fighting in court and in classrooms
(c) By getting them to pay attention to that was really there
(d) By censoring heliocentrism in journals and textbooks
5. What does Ishmael say the narrator needs to tell him in Chapter 8 before the dialogue can resume?
(a) What the law is that has been working from the beginning of time
(b) What he is willing to give up when the collapse comes
(c) What the end result of the Takers’ civilization will be
(d) What the community is in which man is only one member among equals
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the narrator characterize Ishmael’s expression when he gets the narrator to see that the idea that man should rule the earth is a myth?
2. Why does the narrator have a hard time identifying the creation myth of his culture?
3. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?
4. What does the narrator say was removed when man learned to farm?
5. How does Ishmael say the gods must have seen the world before man, according to the narrator’s culture’s story?
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