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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?
(a) Anger
(b) Wisdom
(c) Emptiness
(d) Comfort
2. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?
(a) If he stayed in one place, he would exhaust his food supply
(b) If he stayed in one place, he would be subject to wars
(c) If he wanted to farm, he would have to kill off the hunter-gatherers
(d) If he traded with other cultures, he would lose his women
3. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?
(a) Center of the world
(b) A distraction
(c) The birthplace of culture
(d) Legendary birthplace of agriculture
4. 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 damaging the earth
(c) That his creation myth is centered on mankind
(d) That his creation myth is founded on falsehoods
5. How does the narrator say that Hermann Hesse presents Leo’s “awesome secret wisdom”?
(a) He says that the novel does not describe it
(b) He says that the novel describes it in code
(c) He says that Leo describes it as a mystical vision
(d) He says that the novel is enigmatic on the topic of the wisdom
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Ishmael characterize man’s progress, once he discovered agriculture?
2. For whose benefit does Ishmael say the Leavers accumulate and preserve knowledge?
3. What knowledge do the gods discover that allows them to rule the world without being criminals or negligent?
4. When does the narrator’s creation story begin?
5. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?
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