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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?
(a) Mother Nature
(b) Father Time
(c) Mother Culture
(d) God the Father

2. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The war between good and evil
(b) God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
(c) God’s creation of the universe
(d) The evolution of man

3. What does the narrator find on the arm of his chair during his third dialogue with Ishmael?
(a) An ax
(b) A notebook
(c) A camera
(d) A tape recorder

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

5. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?
(a) When he realized that he had a name
(b) When he realized that he was a gorilla
(c) When he learned to read
(d) When he realized that his name was not his

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?

2. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?

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

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

5. In Chapter 3, how does Ishmael tell the narrator to think, when he tries to get him to see the myth of his culture?

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