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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?
(a) A stove
(b) A set of tools
(c) A phonograph
(d) A bookcase

4. What does the narrator say he does with the newspaper the first time he reads Ishmael’s ad?
(a) Leaves the paper on a bench
(b) Throws it on the floor
(c) Burns it
(d) Throws it in the trash

5. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?
(a) In his earliest experience with his family
(b) All at once in church
(c) Systematically, in school
(d) A little at a time

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find on the arm of his chair during his third dialogue with Ishmael?

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

3. How does Ishmael respond when the narrator says that he does not believe that he is part of a story?

4. What does Ishmael say he can offer the narrator in Chapter 3?

5. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

(see the answer key)

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