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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?
(a) He says that he has to go to admit his belief in court
(b) He says that if he doesn’t work, he won’t eat
(c) He says that his neighbors exclude him if he expressed doubt about the value of the culture
(d) He says that his parents have threatened to disown him if he does not follow in their footsteps

2. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?
(a) He will be isolated
(b) He will become a writer
(c) He will go to war
(d) He will want to become religious

3. 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 make an investment
(c) Someone who wanted to teach
(d) Someone who wanted to change the world

4. When does the narrator recognize Ishmael in Chapter 1?
(a) When the keeper forces Ishmael to move
(b) When Ishmael speaks to him
(c) When he is staring into his own eyes
(d) When Ishmael growls

5. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?
(a) Comfort
(b) Tenderness
(c) Terror
(d) Curiosity

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?

3. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?

4. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?

5. What does Ishmael say he wants, in Chapter 4, when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?

(see the answer key)

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