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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What method does the narrator say he would use, to deduce the laws of the group Ishmael describes in Chapter 7?
(a) Controlled experiments
(b) Library research
(c) Close observation
(d) Interviews

2. What does Ishmael say is the pinnacle of the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) A just society
(b) Man himself
(c) Literature
(d) God’s laws

3. How does Ishmael characterize a community that does not live by the peace-keeping law?
(a) Quick to collapse
(b) Uniquely valuable
(c) Ecologically fragile
(d) Extremely powerful

4. What does Mr. Partridge tell the narrator when he inquires at the Sokolow house in Chapter 10?
(a) Where to find Ishmael
(b) That Mr. Sokolow’s daughter had died
(c) Why the rent was cut off
(d) Where he can find Mrs. Sokolow

5. In Chapter 6, what does Ishmael say is unobtainable in the narrator’s culture?
(a) Freedom from guilt
(b) An orientation to natural laws
(c) An understanding of the goal of human culture
(d) Certain knowledge about how to live

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Ishmael propose, in Chapter 7, to learn how they can find out for themselves how to live?

3. In Chapter 3, how does Ishmael tell the narrator to think, when he tries to get him to see the myth of his culture?

4. What has the narrator’s coldness become, now that he mentions it to Ishmael a second time, at the end of Chapter 5?

5. What is a paean?

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