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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 grew where his idealism had died?
(a) A sense of rage
(b) A scar
(c) A sense of dread
(d) A tumor

2. What does the narrator say he expected when he answered the newspaper ad?
(a) A temple
(b) An atmospheric brownstone
(c) A zoo
(d) A library

3. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?
(a) He is moderately well informed about it
(b) He has always gone out of his way to avoid learning about it
(c) He is a student of it
(d) He is unaware of the details of Nazi rule

4. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?
(a) He says that he has to go to admit his belief in court
(b) He says that his neighbors exclude him if he expressed doubt about the value of the culture
(c) He says that if he doesn’t work, he won’t eat
(d) He says that his parents have threatened to disown him if he does not follow in their footsteps

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?

2. Where does Ishmael say he was born?

3. What is a koan?

4. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?

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

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