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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?
(a) The birth of agriculture
(b) The discovery of metallurgy
(c) The development of trade routes
(d) The beginning of writing

2. What does the narrator say the ad in Chapter 1 was looking for?
(a) Someone who wanted to work with gorillas
(b) Someone who wanted to teach
(c) Someone who wanted to make an investment
(d) Someone who wanted to change the world

3. What does Ishmael say he can offer the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) A set of practical tools for changing the world
(b) A network of people who resist culture
(c) A new perception of the world
(d) Access to mystical experience

4. What does Ishmael say is mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The implied redemption
(b) The arrangement of the facts
(c) The facts themselves
(d) The chronology

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is the pinnacle of the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

2. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

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

4. Where does Ishmael say he was born?

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

(see the answer key)

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