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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 Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?
(a) That we owe someone an enormous debt of gratitude
(b) That we have to find its proper owners
(c) That we can do what we want with it
(d) That we have to take care of it

2. How does Ishmael respond when the narrator says that he does not believe that he is part of a story?
(a) He says that belief is less important than action
(b) He says that it is easier to believe in more incredible things
(c) He says that belief is the beginning of resistance
(d) He says that belief is unimportant

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

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

5. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 2, about the path he will take the narrator on?
(a) Every step will correspond with a mystical experience
(b) He should pay careful attention to the route they will take
(c) There is no going back once you start
(d) He need not remember the route

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say the ad in Chapter 1 was looking for?

3. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?

4. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?

5. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?

(see the answer key)

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