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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 is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?
(a) Emptiness
(b) Anger
(c) Wisdom
(d) Comfort

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

3. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?
(a) 2-3 thousand years
(b) 300 years ago
(c) 200 years ago
(d) 2-3 million years

4. What does Ishmael say he can offer the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) A network of people who resist culture
(b) Access to mystical experience
(c) A set of practical tools for changing the world
(d) A new perception of the world

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say that Hermann Hesse presents Leo’s “awesome secret wisdom”?

2. What does the narrator say he expected when he answered the newspaper ad?

3. What event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?

4. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?

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

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