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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The chronology
(b) The arrangement of the facts
(c) The implied redemption
(d) The facts themselves

2. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?
(a) God the Father
(b) Mother Nature
(c) Mother Culture
(d) Father Time

3. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?
(a) He says that his parents have threatened to disown him if he does not follow in their footsteps
(b) He says that he has to go to admit his belief in court
(c) He says that if he doesn’t work, he won’t eat
(d) He says that his neighbors exclude him if he expressed doubt about the value of the culture

4. How does Ishmael characterize man’s progress, once he discovered agriculture?
(a) Fits and starts
(b) Meteoric
(c) Slow, till he learned how to navigate the ocean
(d) Plodding

5. When does Ishmael say that human history began?
(a) 30 thousand years ago
(b) 3 thousand years ago
(c) 3 million years ago
(d) 300 thousand years ago

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say the narrator needs to tell him in Chapter 8 before the dialogue can resume?

2. What has the narrator’s coldness become, now that he mentions it to Ishmael a second time, at the end of Chapter 5?

3. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?

4. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?

5. In Chapter 3, how does Ishmael tell the narrator to think, when he tries to get him to see the myth of his culture?

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