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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, in Chapter 2, about the path he will take the narrator on?
(a) There is no going back once you start
(b) He need not remember the route
(c) Every step will correspond with a mystical experience
(d) He should pay careful attention to the route they will take

2. In Chapter 3, how does Ishmael tell the narrator to think, when he tries to get him to see the myth of his culture?
(a) Mythological
(b) Imaginatively
(c) Counter intuitively
(d) Like a child

3. What does the narrator answer when Ishmael asks him, in Chapter 5, what man’s destiny is?
(a) To take care of other people
(b) To build civilization
(c) To turn the planet into a garden
(d) To fulfill himself

4. How does Ishmael say that men see the ruin of nature, according to the narrator’s culture’s mythology?
(a) As the visitation of god’s judgment
(b) As the price to be paid for ruling the earth
(c) As the plan nature had for mankind
(d) As the result of God’s plan

5. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?
(a) A distraction
(b) Center of the world
(c) The birthplace of culture
(d) Legendary birthplace of agriculture

Short Answer Questions

1. What distinction does Ishmael point out between Leaver and Taker cultures?

2. What scenario does Ishmael introduce to test the narrator’s ideas about his imaginary culture?

3. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?

4. Where, in the narrator’s account, does the destruction of the earth get reversed?

5. What manipulation does the narrator say man had to learn in order to master his environment?

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