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

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 the world is a mystery no one understands
(c) That the world is made for man
(d) That man is an exile in his consciousness

3. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 5, man did once he made the development that distinguished him from his ancestors?
(a) Set about telling stories about the exile from the Garden
(b) Set about discovering himself
(c) Set about mastering the world
(d) Set about learning from the animals

4. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?
(a) A sense of dread
(b) A sense of rage
(c) A scar
(d) A tumor

5. How long ago did the Takers’ story come into existence?
(a) 200-300 years ago
(b) 2,000 years ago
(c) 10-12 thousand years ago
(d) 20-30 thousand years ago

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what perspective does Ishmael say the narrator should look at the world from?

2. In Chapter 4, how does the narrator say men used to live before they became men?

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

4. When does the narrator recognize Ishmael in Chapter 1?

5. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?

(see the answer key)

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