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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 Ishmael say the followers of Copernicus convinced people to change their view of heliocentrism?
(a) By fighting in court and in classrooms
(b) By getting them to pay attention to that was really there
(c) By discrediting the proponents of heliocentrism
(d) By censoring heliocentrism in journals and textbooks

2. What does Ishmael say man’s importance must be, in the eyes of the gods, in the narrator’s creation myth?
(a) Man must be insignificant
(b) Man must attain value as he understands the gods’ laws
(c) Man must be a creature of enormous importance
(d) Certain men must be more important than others

3. What is a koan?
(a) A secret.
(b) A paradox
(c) A spur to meditation
(d) A riddle

4. What does the narrator say made the difference between men before and the men that live now?
(a) Stories
(b) Writing
(c) Agriculture
(d) Language

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?

3. What is the literary term that describes the narrator’s directly addressing the reader?

4. What does the narrator say he expected when he answered the newspaper ad?

5. What does Ishmael say is the pinnacle of the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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