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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What end does Ishmael say he foresees for the Takers’ culture?
(a) Conquest
(b) Catastrophe
(c) Chaos
(d) Redemption

2. Why does the narrator have a hard time identifying the creation myth of his culture?
(a) Because the creation myth is a mystical secret
(b) Because he never took the religious classes where he would have learned it
(c) Because he has been blinded by a limiting ideology
(d) Because creation myths are not myths to people who tell them

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ishmael say is mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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