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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 narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?
(a) A little at a time
(b) In his earliest experience with his family
(c) All at once in church
(d) Systematically, in school

2. In Chapter 5, how does the narrator characterize the world without man?
(a) Raw material
(b) Paradise
(c) Bloody jungle
(d) Post-apocalyptic dreamscape

3. Why does the narrator have a hard time identifying the creation myth of his culture?
(a) Because he never took the religious classes where he would have learned it
(b) Because the creation myth is a mystical secret
(c) Because he has been blinded by a limiting ideology
(d) Because creation myths are not myths to people who tell them

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

5. What has the narrator’s coldness become, now that he mentions it to Ishmael a second time, at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) A symbol
(b) A trope
(c) A character
(d) A motif

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

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

3. What does Ishmael elicit from the narrator in Chapter 4 regarding his creation myth?

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

5. How does Ishmael say the gods must have seen the world before man, according to the narrator’s culture’s story?

(see the answer key)

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