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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Ishmael say the event he put at 8,000 B.C. on his timeline ended?
(a) He says that it has not ended yet
(b) 5,000 B.C.
(c) 500 B.C.
(d) 2,000 A.D.

2. How does Ishmael define a story?
(a) A fiction that makes factual life possible
(b) A set of events aligned by a human experience of them
(c) A manifestation of the self seeking its center through experience
(d) A scenario interrelating man, the world and the gods

3. What does Ishmael say is ironic about the story the Takers adopted about two thousand years ago?
(a) It had been created by their enemies
(b) It had started as a joke
(c) The story did not originally have anything to do with them
(d) It did not represent their beliefs

4. How long ago did the Takers’ story come into existence?
(a) 10-12 thousand years ago
(b) 20-30 thousand years ago
(c) 2,000 years ago
(d) 200-300 years ago

5. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?
(a) 300 years ago
(b) 2-3 thousand years
(c) 2-3 million years
(d) 200 years ago

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say was removed when man learned to farm?

2. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?

3. 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?

4. What manipulation does the narrator say man had to learn in order to master his environment?

5. From whose perspective does Ishmael tell a rival creation story in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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