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

2. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?
(a) When he realized that he had a name
(b) When he realized that he was a gorilla
(c) When he realized that his name was not his
(d) When he learned to read

3. What does Ishmael say the narrator needs to tell him in Chapter 8 before the dialogue can resume?
(a) What the community is in which man is only one member among equals
(b) What the end result of the Takers’ civilization will be
(c) What he is willing to give up when the collapse comes
(d) What the law is that has been working from the beginning of time

4. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?
(a) Hitler’s international support
(b) Hitler’s story about the Aryan people
(c) Hitler’s violence
(d) Hitler’s charisma

5. How long does it take the narrator to come up with the laws Ishmael asked him to define?
(a) Four days
(b) Three days
(c) Two weeks
(d) One day

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?

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

3. How does Ishmael characterize man’s progress, once he discovered agriculture?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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