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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?
(a) 2-3 million years
(b) 2-3 thousand years
(c) 200 years ago
(d) 300 years ago

2. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?
(a) He describes them as silly children
(b) He characterizes them as panicked fish in a school
(c) He describes them as animals in a stampede
(d) He characterizes them as mindless drones

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

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

5. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?
(a) Rich and poor
(b) Adults and children
(c) First world and third world
(d) Civilized and primitive

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator’s creation story begin?

2. What is the literary term that describes the narrator’s directly addressing the reader?

3. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?

4. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?

5. What does Ishmael say is the premise of the narrator’s creation myth?

(see the answer key)

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