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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 the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?
(a) All at once in church
(b) A little at a time
(c) Systematically, in school
(d) In his earliest experience with his family
2. How long does it take the narrator to come up with the laws Ishmael asked him to define?
(a) Three days
(b) Four days
(c) Two weeks
(d) One day
3. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 6, is the problem with his culture’s story?
(a) The narrator says that conquering the earth has provided freedoms that are worth the earth’s destruction.
(b) The narrator says that there has been a strong conservation movement, opposing industrial progress
(c) The narrator says that conquering the earth has meant destroying it
(d) The narrator says that technology has sped up the destruction of the earth so much that no one can stop it
4. What does Ishmael say has been the result of the Takers’ interpretation of the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?
(a) To bring the benefits of civilization to more people than ever
(b) To produce a paradise on earth
(c) To bring the world to its knees
(d) To establish one or two just civilizations
5. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?
(a) If he traded with other cultures, he would lose his women
(b) If he stayed in one place, he would be subject to wars
(c) If he stayed in one place, he would exhaust his food supply
(d) If he wanted to farm, he would have to kill off the hunter-gatherers
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Ishmael say the followers of Copernicus convinced people to change their view of heliocentrism?
2. 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?
3. What does Ishmael say he can offer the narrator in Chapter 3?
4. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?
5. What scenario does Ishmael introduce to test the narrator’s ideas about his imaginary culture?
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