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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 camera
(b) An ax
(c) A notebook
(d) A tape recorder

2. What event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?
(a) The discovery of metallurgy
(b) The birth of agriculture
(c) The development of trade routes
(d) The beginning of writing

3. What has the narrator’s coldness become, now that he mentions it to Ishmael a second time, at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) A motif
(b) A trope
(c) A character
(d) A symbol

4. 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 the production of goods
(c) How to manipulate trade
(d) How to manipulate his food supply

5. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 6, is the problem with his culture’s story?
(a) The narrator says that technology has sped up the destruction of the earth so much that no one can stop it
(b) The narrator says that conquering the earth has meant destroying it
(c) The narrator says that there has been a strong conservation movement, opposing industrial progress
(d) The narrator says that conquering the earth has provided freedoms that are worth the earth’s destruction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say he can offer the narrator in Chapter 3?

2. How does Ishmael characterize the Takers’ response to the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?

3. What is a koan?

4. In Chapter 5, how does the narrator characterize the world without man?

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

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