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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 Ishmael say is mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The implied redemption
(b) The arrangement of the facts
(c) The facts themselves
(d) The chronology

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

3. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?
(a) Curiosity
(b) Terror
(c) Tenderness
(d) Comfort

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?

2. What is a koan?

3. What does the narrator find on the arm of his chair during his third dialogue with Ishmael?

4. How does the narrator characterize the 1960s?

5. What end does Ishmael say he foresees for the Takers’ culture?

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