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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?
(a) People in socialized countries
(b) Urban poor people
(c) The very rich
(d) A few thousand savages worldwide

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. 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 characterizes them as mindless drones
(c) He describes them as animals in a stampede
(d) He describes them as silly children

4. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?
(a) A set of tools
(b) A phonograph
(c) A stove
(d) A bookcase

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Ishmael respond when the narrator says that he does not believe that he is part of a story?

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

5. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

(see the answer key)

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