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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?
(a) Hitler’s international support
(b) Hitler’s violence
(c) Hitler’s story about the Aryan people
(d) Hitler’s charisma

2. How does Ishmael characterize a community that does not live by the peace-keeping law?
(a) Extremely powerful
(b) Ecologically fragile
(c) Quick to collapse
(d) Uniquely valuable

3. What emotion does the narrator say he sees in Ishmael’s eyes, as he realizes that this change has been made in Chapter 9?
(a) Wary speculation
(b) Sadness
(c) Distrust
(d) Demonic joy

4. How does Ishmael characterize the Takers’ response to the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?
(a) They argued that it was against their constitution
(b) They claimed that it did not apply to them
(c) They found that they could use it to their unfair advantage
(d) They found that they could get away with breaking it indefinitely

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?

2. Why does the narrator say he answers the newspaper ad?

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

4. What is the second thing that the narrator says the Takers do, which is not done in nature?

5. 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”?

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