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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 is his first impression of Ishmael?
(a) Curiosity
(b) Terror
(c) Tenderness
(d) Comfort

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

3. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?
(a) Run-down, seedy
(b) Classical, proud
(c) Ordinary
(d) Gleaming, modern

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?

4. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?

5. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?

(see the answer key)

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