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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What end does Ishmael say he foresees for the Takers’ culture?
(a) Chaos
(b) Redemption
(c) Conquest
(d) Catastrophe

4. What does the narrator say he does with the newspaper the first time he reads Ishmael’s ad?
(a) Throws it on the floor
(b) Throws it in the trash
(c) Burns it
(d) Leaves the paper on a bench

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say man’s importance must be, in the eyes of the gods, in the narrator’s creation myth?

2. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?

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

4. Where does Ishmael say he was born?

5. What is the literary term that describes the narrator’s directly addressing the reader?

(see the answer key)

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