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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) Certain men must be more important than others
(c) Man must be a creature of enormous importance
(d) Man must be insignificant

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

3. In Chapter 5, what perspective does Ishmael say the narrator should look at the world from?
(a) From a jellyfish’s perspective
(b) From outer space
(c) From the earth’s perspective
(d) From a woman’s perspective

4. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?
(a) He is unaware of the details of Nazi rule
(b) He is a student of it
(c) He has always gone out of his way to avoid learning about it
(d) He is moderately well informed about it

5. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?
(a) All at once in church
(b) In his earliest experience with his family
(c) A little at a time
(d) Systematically, in school

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is the premise of the narrator’s creation myth?

2. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?

3. Why does the narrator say he reacts so violently to the ad in Chapter 1?

4. What has the narrator’s coldness become, now that he mentions it to Ishmael a second time, at the end of Chapter 5?

5. When does the narrator recognize Ishmael in Chapter 1?

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