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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, in Chapter 5, man did once he made the development that distinguished him from his ancestors?
(a) Set about learning from the animals
(b) Set about mastering the world
(c) Set about telling stories about the exile from the Garden
(d) Set about discovering himself

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

3. Where does the narrator say the conquest narrative in Chapter 6 ends?
(a) With the mapping of DNA and the brain
(b) With the conquest of all knowledge
(c) With rebellion and collapse
(d) With the conquest of outer space

4. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 8, he would be looking for?
(a) What the people said about their behavior
(b) What the people did not do
(c) What the people did
(d) Places where people’s stories were contradicted by their actions

5. How does Ishmael characterize the notion that agriculture started in the Fertile Crescent?
(a) He says that it is subject to much debate
(b) He says that it is an old hat
(c) He says that it is undisputed
(d) He says that it has not been proved yet

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?

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

3. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 6, is the problem with his culture’s story?

4. When does the narrator’s creation story begin?

5. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 5, is man’s purpose on the earth?

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