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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What manipulation does the narrator say man had to learn in order to master his environment?
(a) How to manipulate trade
(b) How to manipulate the production of goods
(c) How to manipulate his womenfolk
(d) How to manipulate his food supply

2. How does the narrator say that Hermann Hesse presents Leo’s “awesome secret wisdom”?
(a) He says that Leo describes it as a mystical vision
(b) He says that the novel describes it in code
(c) He says that the novel is enigmatic on the topic of the wisdom
(d) He says that the novel does not describe it

3. From whose perspective does Ishmael tell a rival creation story in Chapter 4?
(a) Someone from another planet
(b) A jellyfish
(c) An indigenous person in Asia
(d) A gorilla

4. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?
(a) He will go to war
(b) He will want to become religious
(c) He will be isolated
(d) He will become a writer

5. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?
(a) He says that he has to go to admit his belief in court
(b) He says that his neighbors exclude him if he expressed doubt about the value of the culture
(c) He says that his parents have threatened to disown him if he does not follow in their footsteps
(d) He says that if he doesn’t work, he won’t eat

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael say that men see the ruin of nature, according to the narrator’s culture’s mythology?

2. What end does Ishmael say he foresees for the Takers’ culture?

3. What event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?

4. How does the narrator characterize the work, in Taker culture, of killing off nature?

5. Where is Ishmael’s reference to the Second Murderer drawn from?

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