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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 Ishmael say Takers regard the world?
(a) As a garden of provisions
(b) As life-support for human beings
(c) As an animal to be domesticated
(d) As a gift to be cherished

2. What does the narrator answer when Ishmael asks him, in Chapter 5, what man’s destiny is?
(a) To turn the planet into a garden
(b) To take care of other people
(c) To build civilization
(d) To fulfill himself

3. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?
(a) To put the listener to sleep
(b) To give the listener power
(c) To weed out the weak from the strong
(d) To teach the listener how to fulfill him or herself

4. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?
(a) Comfort
(b) Terror
(c) Tenderness
(d) Curiosity

5. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?
(a) Rich and poor
(b) Adults and children
(c) First world and third world
(d) Civilized and primitive

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ishmael say he was born?

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

3. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

4. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?

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

(see the answer key)

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