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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 Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?
(a) Hitler’s violence
(b) Hitler’s story about the Aryan people
(c) Hitler’s international support
(d) Hitler’s charisma

2. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?
(a) Father Time
(b) God the Father
(c) Mother Culture
(d) Mother Nature

3. 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 silly children
(b) He characterizes them as panicked fish in a school
(c) He describes them as animals in a stampede
(d) He characterizes them as mindless drones

4. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 2, about the path he will take the narrator on?
(a) He need not remember the route
(b) There is no going back once you start
(c) He should pay careful attention to the route they will take
(d) Every step will correspond with a mystical experience

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he expected when he answered the newspaper ad?

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

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

4. What does the narrator say the ad in Chapter 1 was looking for?

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

(see the answer key)

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