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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator say he answers the newspaper ad?
(a) To see what he can learn
(b) To see who else shows up
(c) To be part of the crowd
(d) To make sure that it is just a scam

2. 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 characterizes them as panicked fish in a school
(d) He describes them as animals in a stampede

3. What is a koan?
(a) A paradox
(b) A riddle
(c) A spur to meditation
(d) A secret.

4. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?
(a) Rich and poor
(b) First world and third world
(c) Adults and children
(d) Civilized and primitive

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?

2. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?

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

4. How does the narrator say that Hermann Hesse presents Leo’s “awesome secret wisdom”?

5. Where does Ishmael say he was born?

(see the answer key)

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