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

2. What is the literary term that describes the narrator’s directly addressing the reader?
(a) Personification
(b) Indirect discourse
(c) Apostrophe
(d) Direct discourse

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

4. How does the narrator say, in Chapter 4, that he got himself to see the middle of the story?
(a) By thinking about telling it to a child
(b) By thinking about what a Martian observer would see
(c) By thinking about writing it as a treatment for Nova
(d) By thinking about the moments when he learned the story himself

5. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?
(a) A sense of rage
(b) A tumor
(c) A sense of dread
(d) A scar

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?

2. In Chapter 4, why does the narrator say he does not display the emotion he wants when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?

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

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

5. What does Ishmael say he can offer the narrator in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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