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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 say is his first impression of Ishmael?
(a) Curiosity
(b) Comfort
(c) Terror
(d) Tenderness

2. What does the narrator say he expected when he answered the newspaper ad?
(a) A temple
(b) A zoo
(c) An atmospheric brownstone
(d) A library

3. What does the narrator say was removed when man learned to farm?
(a) The desire for earthly paradise
(b) The limitations of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle
(c) The temptation to control nature
(d) The need to have respect for animals

4. How does the narrator say that Hermann Hesse presents Leo’s “awesome secret wisdom”?
(a) He says that the novel is enigmatic on the topic of the wisdom
(b) He says that the novel describes it in code
(c) He says that Leo describes it as a mystical vision
(d) He says that the novel does not describe it

5. In Chapter 4, why does the narrator say he does not display the emotion he wants when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?
(a) He says that he does not show his emotions
(b) He says that the pleasure of seeing is intellectual for him, not emotional
(c) He says that he is more flabbergasted than he could express
(d) He says that he still does not see

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?

2. Where does Ishmael say he was born?

3. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?

4. What is a koan?

5. How does Ishmael define a story?

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