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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 the narrator characterize Ishmael’s expression when he gets the narrator to see that the idea that man should rule the earth is a myth?
(a) Ironic
(b) Triumphant
(c) Glum
(d) Smug

2. How does Ishmael get the narrator to recognize the limitation of his creation myth?
(a) By asking him to think about the world without people in it
(b) By asking him whether evolution continued beyond man
(c) By asking him to consider whether his own discontent was part of evolution as well
(d) By asking him to describe the same story from an ant’s perspective

3. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?
(a) Emptiness
(b) Anger
(c) Comfort
(d) Wisdom

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what perspective does Ishmael say the narrator should look at the world from?

2. In Chapter 6, Ishmael says that the narrator’s account of man’s progress stopped being applicable—how long ago?

3. What does Ishmael say he wants, in Chapter 4, when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?

4. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?

5. How does Ishmael define a story?

(see the answer key)

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