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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say man’s importance must be, in the eyes of the gods, in the narrator’s creation myth?
(a) Man must attain value as he understands the gods’ laws
(b) Man must be insignificant
(c) Certain men must be more important than others
(d) Man must be a creature of enormous importance

2. What is the literary term that describes the narrator’s directly addressing the reader?
(a) Indirect discourse
(b) Direct discourse
(c) Personification
(d) Apostrophe

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

4. What is a koan?
(a) A paradox
(b) A secret.
(c) A spur to meditation
(d) A riddle

5. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?
(a) Urban poor people
(b) A few thousand savages worldwide
(c) The very rich
(d) People in socialized countries

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

5. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?

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