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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What manipulation does the narrator say man had to learn in order to master his environment?
(a) How to manipulate his womenfolk
(b) How to manipulate his food supply
(c) How to manipulate trade
(d) How to manipulate the production of goods

2. What does Ishmael say ‘Adam’ means?
(a) Mankind
(b) The first man
(c) Life
(d) Breath

3. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?
(a) He characterizes them as panicked fish in a school
(b) He describes them as silly children
(c) He characterizes them as mindless drones
(d) He describes them as animals in a stampede

4. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?
(a) As a cooptation by corporations
(b) As a dwindling to irrelevance
(c) As a movement that died in a crackdown
(d) As a fight that was defeated

5. What does Ishmael say is ironic about the story the Takers adopted about two thousand years ago?
(a) It had been created by their enemies
(b) It had started as a joke
(c) It did not represent their beliefs
(d) The story did not originally have anything to do with them

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael characterize the law the narrator is looking for?

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

3. What keeps the narrator from returning to Ishmael the next day, after discussing Adam and Eve?

4. How does Ishmael say the followers of Copernicus convinced people to change their view of heliocentrism?

5. According to Ishmael, which is NOT a ‘trick’ the gods played on the Takers?

(see the answer key)

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