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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?
(a) As a fight that was defeated
(b) As a dwindling to irrelevance
(c) As a movement that died in a crackdown
(d) As a cooptation by corporations

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

3. How does Ishmael say the gods must have seen the world before man, according to the narrator’s culture’s story?
(a) Unfinished
(b) Perfect
(c) Ruined
(d) Abandoned

4. Where does Ishmael say mankind’s flaw is?
(a) In its story of its origins
(b) In the development of agriculture
(c) In the divine plan for mankind
(d) In human nature itself

5. In Chapter 6, Ishmael says that the narrator’s account of man’s progress stopped being applicable—how long ago?
(a) 80-90 years
(b) 100-120 years
(c) 150-200 years
(d) 30-40 years

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael get the narrator to recognize the limitation of his creation myth?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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