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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?
(a) Run-down, seedy
(b) Classical, proud
(c) Gleaming, modern
(d) Ordinary

2. In Chapter 4, how does the narrator say men used to live before they became men?
(a) He says that they were always men
(b) Like every other creature
(c) Like the least noble creatures
(d) Like the chosen creatures

3. In Chapter 6, what does Ishmael say is unobtainable in the narrator’s culture?
(a) An orientation to natural laws
(b) An understanding of the goal of human culture
(c) Certain knowledge about how to live
(d) Freedom from guilt

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

5. What does the narrator say he does with the newspaper the first time he reads Ishmael’s ad?
(a) Burns it
(b) Throws it in the trash
(c) Throws it on the floor
(d) Leaves the paper on a bench

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say the conquest narrative in Chapter 6 ends?

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

3. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 5, is man’s purpose on the earth?

4. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?

5. What does the narrator say was removed when man learned to farm?

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