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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) Exterminate competitors
(d) Claim territory for themselves

2. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?
(a) Comfort
(b) Tenderness
(c) Curiosity
(d) Terror

3. In Chapter 6, Ishmael says that the narrator’s account of man’s progress stopped being applicable—how long ago?
(a) 80-90 years
(b) 30-40 years
(c) 150-200 years
(d) 100-120 years

4. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The evolution of man
(b) The war between good and evil
(c) God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
(d) God’s creation of the universe

5. Why does the narrator have a hard time identifying the creation myth of his culture?
(a) Because he has been blinded by a limiting ideology
(b) Because creation myths are not myths to people who tell them
(c) Because he never took the religious classes where he would have learned it
(d) Because the creation myth is a mystical secret

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?

3. What does the narrator find on the arm of his chair during his third dialogue with Ishmael?

4. How does Ishmael say the followers of Copernicus convinced people to change their view of heliocentrism?

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

(see the answer key)

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