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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the work, in Taker culture, of killing off nature?
(a) Holy
(b) Necessary
(c) Tragic
(d) Sacrilegious

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

3. When the narrator cannot answer Ishmael’s question, ‘how did man become man?’, how does Ishmael say they will address the question?
(a) Directly
(b) Matter-of-factly
(c) Obliquely
(d) Pragmatically

4. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?
(a) Gleaming, modern
(b) Ordinary
(c) Run-down, seedy
(d) Classical, proud

5. What does Ishmael elicit from the narrator in Chapter 4 regarding his creation myth?
(a) That his creation myth excludes the perspective of women
(b) That his creation myth is founded on falsehoods
(c) That his creation myth is centered on mankind
(d) That his creation myth is damaging the earth

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the first thing that the Takers do that no one else in nature does?

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

3. What event does Ishmael put at 8,000 B.C. on his timeline?

4. What does the narrator say the ad in Chapter 1 was looking for?

5. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?

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