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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?
(a) A bookcase
(b) A stove
(c) A set of tools
(d) A phonograph

2. 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”?
(a) Man was always going to be able to imagine more than he could get for himself
(b) Wealth was never going to be distributed equitably
(c) People screwed it up
(d) The natural world would not support all of men’s plans

3. How does Ishmael propose, in Chapter 7, to learn how they can find out for themselves how to live?
(a) By talking to prophets
(b) By having mystical experiences
(c) By consulting books
(d) By looking at what is actually there

4. Where does Ishmael say, in Chapter 7, they should look for a set of laws about how to live?
(a) Literature
(b) Human behavior
(c) The heavens
(d) Anthropology

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 motif
(b) A trope
(c) A character
(d) A symbol

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael say Takers regard the world?

2. What is the narrator’s reaction when he hears the rival creation story Ishmael tells in Chapter 4?

3. How does Ishmael characterize the Takers’ response to the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?

4. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

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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