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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator say that Hermann Hesse presents Leo’s “awesome secret wisdom”?
(a) He says that the novel is enigmatic on the topic of the wisdom
(b) He says that the novel describes it in code
(c) He says that Leo describes it as a mystical vision
(d) He says that the novel does not describe it

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

3. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?
(a) He says that his parents have threatened to disown him if he does not follow in their footsteps
(b) He says that he has to go to admit his belief in court
(c) He says that his neighbors exclude him if he expressed doubt about the value of the culture
(d) He says that if he doesn’t work, he won’t eat

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

5. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?
(a) He has always gone out of his way to avoid learning about it
(b) He is unaware of the details of Nazi rule
(c) He is moderately well informed about it
(d) He is a student of it

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?

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

4. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

5. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?

(see the answer key)

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