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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 propose, in Chapter 7, to learn how they can find out for themselves how to live?
(a) By having mystical experiences
(b) By talking to prophets
(c) By looking at what is actually there
(d) By consulting books

2. When does Ishmael say the event he put at 8,000 B.C. on his timeline ended?
(a) 2,000 A.D.
(b) He says that it has not ended yet
(c) 5,000 B.C.
(d) 500 B.C.

3. What is the literary term for the running comparison to aeronauts?
(a) Anaphora
(b) Parody
(c) Analogy
(d) Parallel syntax

4. What scenario does Ishmael describe in Chapter 7, which horrifies the narrator?
(a) A city where every plant and tree is ordered
(b) A jungle where the animals have committee meetings
(c) The meetings of the gods, where the gods do nothing but bicker
(d) A city where the neighbors eat each other

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find on the arm of his chair during his third dialogue with Ishmael?

2. Where does Ishmael say he was born?

3. How does Ishmael characterize man’s progress, once he discovered agriculture?

4. How does Ishmael describe civilization’s progress in Chapter 7?

5. What does the narrator say he does with the newspaper the first time he reads Ishmael’s ad?

(see the answer key)

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