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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago did the Takers’ story come into existence?
(a) 10-12 thousand years ago
(b) 200-300 years ago
(c) 20-30 thousand years ago
(d) 2,000 years ago

2. How does Ishmael characterize the law the narrator is looking for?
(a) An unspoken law
(b) The law that ensures justice
(c) A culture-defining law
(d) A peace-keeping law

3. When does the narrator’s creation story begin?
(a) 2 thousand years ago
(b) 250 thousand years ago
(c) 10- 15 billion years ago
(d) 4 billion years ago

4. What has the narrator’s coldness become, now that he mentions it to Ishmael a second time, at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) A trope
(b) A symbol
(c) A character
(d) A motif

5. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?
(a) He is moderately well informed about it
(b) He is a student of it
(c) He is unaware of the details of Nazi rule
(d) He has always gone out of his way to avoid learning about it

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Ishmael say that human history began?

2. What does the narrator say was removed when man learned to farm?

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

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

5. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?

(see the answer key)

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