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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item does the narrator bring Ishmael at the carnival?
(a) Food
(b) Books
(c) Blankets
(d) Newspapers

2. What reason explains the change of circumstances when the narrator returns to the office building after several days away from Ishmael in Chapter 10?
(a) Ishmael met another student
(b) Ishmael was insulted by the narrator’s days away
(c) Ishmael’s caretaker was not paying the rent
(d) Ishmael was getting old

3. According to Ishmael, which is NOT a ‘trick’ the gods played on the Takers?
(a) Failing to create man after a special fashion unique in nature
(b) Refusing to put the world in the center of the solar system and universe
(c) Neglecting to write down their laws for the benefit of men
(d) Not exempting man from the laws that govern populations of animals and plants.

4. What knowledge does Ishmael say the gods have that allows them to rule the world?
(a) Knowledge of justice
(b) Knowledge of life
(c) Knowledge of good and evil
(d) Knowledge of death

5. How does Ishmael say the aeronauts proceeded to learn to fly?
(a) By trial and error
(b) By research and observation
(c) By following inspirations from their dreams
(d) By controlled experiments

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, what perspective does Ishmael say the narrator should look at the world from?

3. From whose perspective does Ishmael tell a rival creation story in Chapter 4?

4. Where does Ishmael say mankind’s flaw is?

5. What does Ishmael say is ironic about the story the Takers adopted about two thousand years ago?

(see the answer key)

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