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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 gift to be cherished
(b) As an animal to be domesticated
(c) As a garden of provisions
(d) As life-support for human beings

2. In Chapter 4, why does the narrator say he does not display the emotion he wants when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?
(a) He says that he still does not see
(b) He says that he is more flabbergasted than he could express
(c) He says that the pleasure of seeing is intellectual for him, not emotional
(d) He says that he does not show his emotions

3. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?
(a) He will become a writer
(b) He will want to become religious
(c) He will go to war
(d) He will be isolated

4. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?
(a) A set of tools
(b) A bookcase
(c) A phonograph
(d) A stove

5. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?
(a) Center of the world
(b) The birthplace of culture
(c) Legendary birthplace of agriculture
(d) A distraction

Short Answer Questions

1. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?

2. What does Ishmael say is mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

3. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?

4. How does the narrator characterize the 1960s?

5. When does the narrator’s creation story begin?

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