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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 the world was created for, in the narrator’s story in Chapter 4?
(a) Man’s use
(b) The fulfillment of each of its creatures
(c) No purpose at all
(d) The fulfillment of divine ideas

2. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?
(a) When he realized that his name was not his
(b) When he realized that he had a name
(c) When he learned to read
(d) When he realized that he was a gorilla

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

4. 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

5. From whose perspective does Ishmael tell a rival creation story in Chapter 4?
(a) Someone from another planet
(b) A gorilla
(c) A jellyfish
(d) An indigenous person in Asia

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 2, about the path he will take the narrator on?

2. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?

3. What end does Ishmael say he foresees for the Takers’ culture?

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

5. What does the narrator answer when Ishmael asks him, in Chapter 5, what man’s destiny is?

(see the answer key)

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