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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ishmael say is the premise of the narrator’s creation myth?
(a) That man belongs in the midst, not on the top of the community of life
(b) That man is an exile in his consciousness
(c) That the world is made for man
(d) That the world is a mystery no one understands

3. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?
(a) When he realized that his name was not his
(b) When he learned to read
(c) When he realized that he had a name
(d) When he realized that he was a gorilla

4. 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) Imaginatively
(b) Mythological
(c) Like a child
(d) Counter intuitively

5. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?
(a) Center of the world
(b) Legendary birthplace of agriculture
(c) The birthplace of culture
(d) A distraction

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say he can offer the narrator in Chapter 3?

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

3. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?

4. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?

5. Why does the narrator say he answers the newspaper ad?

(see the answer key)

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