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

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

3. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?
(a) He will go to war
(b) He will be isolated
(c) He will become a writer
(d) He will want to become religious

4. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?
(a) He says that if he doesn’t work, he won’t eat
(b) He says that he has to go to admit his belief in court
(c) He says that his neighbors exclude him if he expressed doubt about the value of the culture
(d) He says that his parents have threatened to disown him if he does not follow in their footsteps

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a koan?

3. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

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

5. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 2, about the path he will take the narrator on?

(see the answer key)

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