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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 Ishmael characterize the Takers’ response to the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?
(a) They claimed that it did not apply to them
(b) They argued that it was against their constitution
(c) They found that they could use it to their unfair advantage
(d) They found that they could get away with breaking it indefinitely

2. In Chapter 11, how does Ishmael define culture?
(a) As the set of answers to a people’s most pressing questions
(b) As the things a people cannot give up without becoming someone else
(c) As the total set of a people’s actions and words
(d) As the knowledge that is passed down generation to generation

3. What does Ishmael ask the narrator to leave and come back with in Chapter 11?
(a) An explanation for his ailments
(b) A genuine apology
(c) A plan for his future care
(d) A legitimate reason for asking about the Leavers

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

5. In Chapter 4, how does the narrator say men used to live before they became men?
(a) He says that they were always men
(b) Like every other creature
(c) Like the least noble creatures
(d) Like the chosen creatures

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the big change that has taken place at the beginning of Chapter 9?

3. When does Ishmael say that human history began?

4. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?

5. Where does the narrator reunite with Ishmael in Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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