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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator’s reaction when he hears the rival creation story Ishmael tells in Chapter 4?
(a) He is amused
(b) He does not understand it
(c) He is furious
(d) He sees the point immediately

2. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?
(a) 200 years ago
(b) 300 years ago
(c) 2-3 million years
(d) 2-3 thousand years

3. Where does Ishmael say he was born?
(a) India
(b) Memphis
(c) Tibet.
(d) West Africa

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say he answers the newspaper ad?

2. Why does the narrator say he reacts so violently to the ad in Chapter 1?

3. In Chapter 4, how does the narrator say men used to live before they became men?

4. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?

5. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?

(see the answer key)

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