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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 tell the narrator to do, when the narrator cannot say what man’s destiny is in Chapter 5?
(a) Think metaphorically
(b) Think emotionally
(c) Think historically
(d) Think mythologically

2. 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) Glum
(b) Triumphant
(c) Ironic
(d) Smug

3. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?
(a) Civilized and primitive
(b) Adults and children
(c) First world and third world
(d) Rich and poor

4. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?
(a) He will go to war
(b) He will be isolated
(c) He will become a writer
(d) He will want to become religious

5. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?
(a) He characterizes them as mindless drones
(b) He characterizes them as panicked fish in a school
(c) He describes them as silly children
(d) He describes them as animals in a stampede

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ‘but’ Ishmael sees in the narrator’s story: “The world was made for man to conquer, and turn into a paradise--except for what”?

2. What does Ishmael say is the pinnacle of the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

3. What does Ishmael say has been the result of the Takers’ interpretation of the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?

4. What event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?

5. How does Ishmael characterize the notion that agriculture started in the Fertile Crescent?

(see the answer key)

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