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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator recognize Ishmael in Chapter 1?
(a) When Ishmael growls
(b) When the keeper forces Ishmael to move
(c) When Ishmael speaks to him
(d) When he is staring into his own eyes

2. 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) Throws it in the trash
(d) Burns it

3. How does the narrator characterize the 1960s?
(a) As a period of hopeless despair
(b) As the time of the children’s revolt
(c) As the great cultural leap forward
(d) As a the time when culture was completely lost

4. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The evolution of man
(b) God’s creation of the universe
(c) The war between good and evil
(d) God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden

5. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?
(a) Mother Nature
(b) Father Time
(c) Mother Culture
(d) God the Father

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Ishmael say is the pinnacle of the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

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