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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?
(a) He is a student of it
(b) He is moderately well informed about it
(c) He is unaware of the details of Nazi rule
(d) He has always gone out of his way to avoid learning about it

2. What does the narrator say he expected when he answered the newspaper ad?
(a) An atmospheric brownstone
(b) A zoo
(c) A library
(d) A temple

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 his name was not his
(d) When he realized that he was a gorilla

4. What is a koan?
(a) A secret.
(b) A riddle
(c) A paradox
(d) A spur to meditation

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?

2. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?

3. How does the narrator say that Hermann Hesse presents Leo’s “awesome secret wisdom”?

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

5. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?

(see the answer key)

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