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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 Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?
(a) He will go to war
(b) He will become a writer
(c) He will want to become religious
(d) He will be isolated

2. How does Ishmael say the followers of Copernicus convinced people to change their view of heliocentrism?
(a) By getting them to pay attention to that was really there
(b) By fighting in court and in classrooms
(c) By censoring heliocentrism in journals and textbooks
(d) By discrediting the proponents of heliocentrism

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) 100-120 years
(c) 150-200 years
(d) 30-40 years

4. What end does Ishmael say he foresees for the Takers’ culture?
(a) Catastrophe
(b) Redemption
(c) Chaos
(d) Conquest

5. Why does the narrator say he feels a particular feeling after taking a few days off from his discussion with the narrator in Chapter 8?
(a) Because he is confident that he can use his new knowledge to change things
(b) Because he expects to be abandoned once he has finished Ishmael’s teachings
(c) Because he does not believe that he can change anything himself
(d) Because he is seeing clearly for the first time in his life

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the law Ishmael believes the narartor is looking for in Chapter 8 prevent?

2. How does Ishmael define a story?

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

4. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 5, man did once he made the development that distinguished him from his ancestors?

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

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