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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What end does Ishmael say he foresees for the Takers’ culture?
(a) Conquest
(b) Chaos
(c) Catastrophe
(d) Redemption

2. How does Ishmael respond when the narrator says that he does not believe that he is part of a story?
(a) He says that it is easier to believe in more incredible things
(b) He says that belief is unimportant
(c) He says that belief is the beginning of resistance
(d) He says that belief is less important than action

3. In Chapter 3, how does Ishmael tell the narrator to think, when he tries to get him to see the myth of his culture?
(a) Like a child
(b) Mythological
(c) Imaginatively
(d) Counter intuitively

4. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?
(a) Wisdom
(b) Emptiness
(c) Comfort
(d) Anger

5. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?
(a) He has always gone out of his way to avoid learning about it
(b) He is moderately well informed about it
(c) He is a student of it
(d) He is unaware of the details of Nazi rule

Short Answer Questions

1. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?

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

3. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?

4. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

5. What is the literary term that describes the narrator’s directly addressing the reader?

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