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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 law the narrator is looking for?
(a) An unspoken law
(b) A culture-defining law
(c) A peace-keeping law
(d) The law that ensures justice

2. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?
(a) Hitler’s story about the Aryan people
(b) Hitler’s international support
(c) Hitler’s violence
(d) Hitler’s charisma

3. Where does Ishmael say mankind’s flaw is?
(a) In the development of agriculture
(b) In its story of its origins
(c) In human nature itself
(d) In the divine plan for mankind

4. How does Ishmael describe civilization’s progress in Chapter 7?
(a) As a building built on water
(b) As a garden that has worn out the soil
(c) As the free-fall of an aircraft that does not accord with the laws of aerodynamics
(d) As a corpse that has been kept alive artificially

5. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?
(a) That we owe someone an enormous debt of gratitude
(b) That we have to take care of it
(c) That we can do what we want with it
(d) That we have to find its proper owners

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a koan?

2. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?

3. What knowledge does Ishmael say the gods have that allows them to rule the world?

4. What knowledge do the gods discover that allows them to rule the world without being criminals or negligent?

5. What does Mr. Partridge tell the narrator when he inquires at the Sokolow house in Chapter 10?

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