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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 say the followers of Copernicus convinced people to change their view of heliocentrism?
(a) By getting them to pay attention to that was really there
(b) By discrediting the proponents of heliocentrism
(c) By fighting in court and in classrooms
(d) By censoring heliocentrism in journals and textbooks

2. How does Ishmael characterize man’s progress, once he discovered agriculture?
(a) Plodding
(b) Meteoric
(c) Slow, till he learned how to navigate the ocean
(d) Fits and starts

3. How does Ishmael characterize a community that does not live by the peace-keeping law?
(a) Quick to collapse
(b) Ecologically fragile
(c) Extremely powerful
(d) Uniquely valuable

4. What knowledge do the gods discover that allows them to rule the world without being criminals or negligent?
(a) The knowledge of secret texts
(b) The knowledge of who shall live and who shall die
(c) The knowledge of the future
(d) The knowledge of life

5. What does the narrator find on the arm of his chair during his third dialogue with Ishmael?
(a) A tape recorder
(b) An ax
(c) A notebook
(d) A camera

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ishmael elicit from the narrator in Chapter 4 regarding his creation myth?

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

4. What does Ishmael say is mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

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

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