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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Ishmael say he was born?
(a) India
(b) Memphis
(c) West Africa
(d) Tibet.

2. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?
(a) Hitler’s story about the Aryan people
(b) Hitler’s charisma
(c) Hitler’s international support
(d) Hitler’s violence

3. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?
(a) He says that if he doesn’t work, he won’t eat
(b) He says that his parents have threatened to disown him if he does not follow in their footsteps
(c) He says that his neighbors exclude him if he expressed doubt about the value of the culture
(d) He says that he has to go to admit his belief in court

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

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 is enigmatic on the topic of the wisdom
(c) He says that Leo describes it as a mystical vision
(d) He says that the novel describes it in code

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?

2. What is a koan?

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

4. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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