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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?
(a) The birth of agriculture
(b) The development of trade routes
(c) The beginning of writing
(d) The discovery of metallurgy

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

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

4. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?
(a) Mother Culture
(b) Father Time
(c) Mother Nature
(d) God the Father

5. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The evolution of man
(b) The war between good and evil
(c) God’s creation of the universe
(d) God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say was removed when man learned to farm?

2. How does Ishmael say the gods must have seen the world before man, according to the narrator’s culture’s story?

3. What does the narrator say he does with the newspaper the first time he reads Ishmael’s ad?

4. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?

5. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?

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