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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whose perspective does Ishmael tell a rival creation story in Chapter 4?
(a) A gorilla
(b) A jellyfish
(c) Someone from another planet
(d) An indigenous person in Asia

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

3. In Chapter 5, what perspective does Ishmael say the narrator should look at the world from?
(a) From the earth’s perspective
(b) From a jellyfish’s perspective
(c) From a woman’s perspective
(d) From outer space

4. When does the narrator recognize Ishmael in Chapter 1?
(a) When the keeper forces Ishmael to move
(b) When Ishmael speaks to him
(c) When he is staring into his own eyes
(d) When Ishmael growls

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?

2. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 2, about the path he will take the narrator on?

3. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

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

5. What manipulation does the narrator say man had to learn in order to master his environment?

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