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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say he expected when he answered the newspaper ad?
(a) A temple
(b) A library
(c) An atmospheric brownstone
(d) A zoo

2. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?
(a) All at once in church
(b) Systematically, in school
(c) In his earliest experience with his family
(d) A little at a time

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

4. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?
(a) Gleaming, modern
(b) Ordinary
(c) Classical, proud
(d) Run-down, seedy

5. What does the narrator say he does with the newspaper the first time he reads Ishmael’s ad?
(a) Burns it
(b) Throws it in the trash
(c) Leaves the paper on a bench
(d) Throws it on the floor

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 2, about the path he will take the narrator on?

2. What end does Ishmael say he foresees for the Takers’ culture?

3. What does Ishmael say man’s importance must be, in the eyes of the gods, in the narrator’s creation myth?

4. What does Ishmael say the world was created for, in the narrator’s story in Chapter 4?

5. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?

(see the answer key)

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