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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?
(a) To give the listener power
(b) To weed out the weak from the strong
(c) To teach the listener how to fulfill him or herself
(d) To put the listener to sleep

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

3. What does Ishmael tell the narrator to do, when the narrator cannot say what man’s destiny is in Chapter 5?
(a) Think metaphorically
(b) Think emotionally
(c) Think mythologically
(d) Think historically

4. What does the narrator answer when Ishmael asks him, in Chapter 5, what man’s destiny is?
(a) To fulfill himself
(b) To turn the planet into a garden
(c) To build civilization
(d) To take care of other people

5. What does Ishmael say is the premise of the narrator’s creation myth?
(a) That the world is made for man
(b) That man is an exile in his consciousness
(c) That man belongs in the midst, not on the top of the community of life
(d) That the world is a mystery no one understands

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?

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

4. Where does Ishmael say mankind’s flaw is?

5. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

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