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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ishmael define a story?
(a) A set of events aligned by a human experience of them
(b) A scenario interrelating man, the world and the gods
(c) A manifestation of the self seeking its center through experience
(d) A fiction that makes factual life possible

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

3. How long ago did the Takers’ story come into existence?
(a) 10-12 thousand years ago
(b) 2,000 years ago
(c) 200-300 years ago
(d) 20-30 thousand years ago

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

5. What does Ishmael say is the pinnacle of the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) Literature
(b) A just society
(c) God’s laws
(d) Man himself

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

2. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?

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

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

5. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?

(see the answer key)

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