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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?
(a) When he realized that he had a name
(b) When he realized that he was a gorilla
(c) When he learned to read
(d) When he realized that his name was not his

2. 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

3. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?
(a) Wisdom
(b) Anger
(c) Comfort
(d) Emptiness

4. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?
(a) If he traded with other cultures, he would lose his women
(b) If he stayed in one place, he would be subject to wars
(c) If he wanted to farm, he would have to kill off the hunter-gatherers
(d) If he stayed in one place, he would exhaust his food supply

5. What does Ishmael elicit from the narrator in Chapter 4 regarding his creation myth?
(a) That his creation myth is founded on falsehoods
(b) That his creation myth is damaging the earth
(c) That his creation myth is centered on mankind
(d) That his creation myth excludes the perspective of women

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a koan?

2. What does Ishmael say he wants, in Chapter 4, when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?

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

4. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?

5. How does the narrator say that Hermann Hesse presents Leo’s “awesome secret wisdom”?

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