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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’s creation story begin?
(a) 250 thousand years ago
(b) 4 billion years ago
(c) 2 thousand years ago
(d) 10- 15 billion years ago

2. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?
(a) Classical, proud
(b) Gleaming, modern
(c) Run-down, seedy
(d) Ordinary

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

4. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?
(a) He will become a writer
(b) He will want to become religious
(c) He will go to war
(d) He will be isolated

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator have a hard time identifying the creation myth of his culture?

2. How does the narrator characterize the 1960s?

3. Where does Ishmael say he was born?

4. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?

5. What does the narrator say the ad in Chapter 1 was looking for?

(see the answer key)

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