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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?
(a) A tumor
(b) A sense of rage
(c) A sense of dread
(d) A scar

3. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?
(a) When he realized that he had a name
(b) When he learned to read
(c) When he realized that he was a gorilla
(d) When he realized that his name was not his

4. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?
(a) Emptiness
(b) Comfort
(c) Anger
(d) Wisdom

5. Where does Ishmael say he was born?
(a) Tibet.
(b) Memphis
(c) West Africa
(d) India

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?

2. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?

3. Why does the narrator say he reacts so violently to the ad in Chapter 1?

4. Why does the narrator say he answers the newspaper ad?

5. When does the narrator recognize Ishmael in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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