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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a koan?
(a) A spur to meditation
(b) A secret.
(c) A riddle
(d) A paradox

2. What does the narrator say is the first thing that the Takers do that no one else in nature does?
(a) Rationalize their murder
(b) Execute murderers
(c) Claim territory for themselves
(d) Exterminate competitors

3. In Chapter 6, what does Ishmael say is unobtainable in the narrator’s culture?
(a) An understanding of the goal of human culture
(b) An orientation to natural laws
(c) Freedom from guilt
(d) Certain knowledge about how to live

4. 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?
(a) Ironic
(b) Smug
(c) Glum
(d) Triumphant

5. What does the narrator find on the arm of his chair during his third dialogue with Ishmael?
(a) A tape recorder
(b) An ax
(c) A notebook
(d) A camera

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 5, man did once he made the development that distinguished him from his ancestors?

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

3. When does Ishmael say that human history began?

4. What does the narrator answer when Ishmael asks him, in Chapter 5, what man’s destiny is?

5. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?

(see the answer key)

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