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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 Ishmael say Takers regard the world?
(a) As a garden of provisions
(b) As life-support for human beings
(c) As an animal to be domesticated
(d) As a gift to be cherished

2. What does Ishmael elicit from the narrator in Chapter 4 regarding his creation myth?
(a) That his creation myth is damaging the earth
(b) That his creation myth is centered on mankind
(c) That his creation myth is founded on falsehoods
(d) That his creation myth excludes the perspective of women

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

4. How long ago did the Takers’ story come into existence?
(a) 2,000 years ago
(b) 20-30 thousand years ago
(c) 10-12 thousand years ago
(d) 200-300 years ago

5. From whose perspective does Ishmael tell a rival creation story in Chapter 4?
(a) An indigenous person in Asia
(b) Someone from another planet
(c) A gorilla
(d) A jellyfish

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say he expected when he answered the newspaper ad?

3. What does the narrator say he does with the newspaper the first time he reads Ishmael’s ad?

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

5. What does Ishmael say is mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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