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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator find on the arm of his chair during his third dialogue with Ishmael?
(a) A camera
(b) An ax
(c) A tape recorder
(d) A notebook

2. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 2, about the path he will take the narrator on?
(a) He should pay careful attention to the route they will take
(b) He need not remember the route
(c) Every step will correspond with a mystical experience
(d) There is no going back once you start

3. How does the narrator say, in Chapter 4, that he got himself to see the middle of the story?
(a) By thinking about what a Martian observer would see
(b) By thinking about telling it to a child
(c) By thinking about writing it as a treatment for Nova
(d) By thinking about the moments when he learned the story himself

4. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The war between good and evil
(b) God’s creation of the universe
(c) The evolution of man
(d) God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

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

3. How does Ishmael say the gods must have seen the world before man, according to the narrator’s culture’s story?

4. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?

5. Where does Ishmael say he was born?

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