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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator say that Hermann Hesse presents Leo’s “awesome secret wisdom”?
(a) He says that the novel is enigmatic on the topic of the wisdom
(b) He says that the novel does not describe it
(c) He says that Leo describes it as a mystical vision
(d) He says that the novel describes it in code

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say he reacts so violently to the ad in Chapter 1?

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

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

4. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?

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

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