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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?
(a) A few thousand savages worldwide
(b) The very rich
(c) People in socialized countries
(d) Urban poor people

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?

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

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

5. In Chapter 4, why does the narrator say he does not display the emotion he wants when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?

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