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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Ishmael say that human history began?
(a) 30 thousand years ago
(b) 3 million years ago
(c) 3 thousand years ago
(d) 300 thousand years ago

2. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?
(a) A distraction
(b) The birthplace of culture
(c) Center of the world
(d) Legendary birthplace of agriculture

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

4. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?
(a) If he stayed in one place, he would be subject to wars
(b) If he wanted to farm, he would have to kill off the hunter-gatherers
(c) If he stayed in one place, he would exhaust his food supply
(d) If he traded with other cultures, he would lose his women

5. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 5, man did once he made the development that distinguished him from his ancestors?
(a) Set about learning from the animals
(b) Set about mastering the world
(c) Set about telling stories about the exile from the Garden
(d) Set about discovering himself

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator have a hard time identifying the creation myth of his culture?

2. What does the narrator say he does with the newspaper the first time he reads Ishmael’s ad?

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

4. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?

5. What is the ‘but’ Ishmael sees in the narrator’s story: “The world was made for man to conquer, and turn into a paradise--except for what”?

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