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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 Ishmael say the world was created for, in the narrator’s story in Chapter 4?
(a) The fulfillment of divine ideas
(b) No purpose at all
(c) Man’s use
(d) The fulfillment of each of its creatures

2. What has the narrator’s coldness become, now that he mentions it to Ishmael a second time, at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) A character
(b) A trope
(c) A motif
(d) A symbol

3. What looming crisis does Ishmael imply will correct the ‘Takers’’ excesses?
(a) Famine
(b) Drought
(c) Population explosion
(d) Warfare

4. For whose benefit does Ishmael say the Leavers accumulate and preserve knowledge?
(a) Themselves
(b) Their food supply
(c) The community of life
(d) The creatures they are responsible for

5. What is a koan?
(a) A secret.
(b) A spur to meditation
(c) A riddle
(d) A paradox

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Ishmael say people were looking, when they came to the conclusion that man had undermined the universe’s plan, that he would rule nature?

3. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?

4. What is the narrator’s reaction when he hears the rival creation story Ishmael tells in Chapter 4?

5. What does Ishmael say ‘Adam’ means?

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