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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where, in the narrator’s account, does the destruction of the earth get reversed?
(a) It never does
(b) In the future, with the children
(c) As soon as someone discovers how to make money from healing the natural world
(d) As soon as the political parties can come to agreement
2. Why does the narrator say that he understands why Ishmael asked him to define the laws himself?
(a) Because Ishmael wanted to get him accustomed to doing things for himself, for when Ishmael was no longer around
(b) Because he had to relinquish beliefs of his own, to see the laws
(c) Because if Ishmael had described them, he would not have thought them important
(d) Because Ishmael did not want him to be reliant upon him
3. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 8, he would be looking for?
(a) What the people did not do
(b) Places where people’s stories were contradicted by their actions
(c) What the people said about their behavior
(d) What the people did
4. Where does Ishmael say people were looking, when they came to the conclusion that man had undermined the universe’s plan, that he would rule nature?
(a) To human history itself
(b) To the order of the cosmos
(c) To the tragedy of warfare
(d) To the squalor of cities
5. Where does Ishmael say mankind’s flaw is?
(a) In human nature itself
(b) In the development of agriculture
(c) In the divine plan for mankind
(d) In its story of its origins
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the second thing that the narrator says the Takers do, which is not done in nature?
2. How does Ishmael define a story?
3. What does Ishmael say is the pinnacle of the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
4. How does Ishmael say that men see the ruin of nature, according to the narrator’s culture’s mythology?
5. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?
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