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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 respond when the narrator says that he does not believe that he is part of a story?
(a) He says that belief is unimportant
(b) He says that it is easier to believe in more incredible things
(c) He says that belief is less important than action
(d) He says that belief is the beginning of resistance

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

3. What does the narrator say the ad in Chapter 1 was looking for?
(a) Someone who wanted to work with gorillas
(b) Someone who wanted to change the world
(c) Someone who wanted to make an investment
(d) Someone who wanted to teach

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

5. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?
(a) Terror
(b) Comfort
(c) Curiosity
(d) Tenderness

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?

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

3. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?

4. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?

5. What is the literary term that describes the narrator’s directly addressing the reader?

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