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

2. How does Ishmael say the gods must have seen the world before man, according to the narrator’s culture’s story?
(a) Perfect
(b) Abandoned
(c) Unfinished
(d) Ruined

3. What manipulation does the narrator say man had to learn in order to master his environment?
(a) How to manipulate his womenfolk
(b) How to manipulate trade
(c) How to manipulate his food supply
(d) How to manipulate the production of goods

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

5. Why does the narrator have a hard time identifying the creation myth of his culture?
(a) Because the creation myth is a mystical secret
(b) Because creation myths are not myths to people who tell them
(c) Because he has been blinded by a limiting ideology
(d) Because he never took the religious classes where he would have learned it

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does the narrator say the conquest narrative in Chapter 6 ends?

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

5. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 8, he would be looking for?

(see the answer key)

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