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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 is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?
(a) To give the listener power
(b) To put the listener to sleep
(c) To teach the listener how to fulfill him or herself
(d) To weed out the weak from the strong

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

3. How does Ishmael respond when the narrator says that he does not believe that he is part of a story?
(a) He says that belief is unimportant
(b) He says that belief is the beginning of resistance
(c) He says that it is easier to believe in more incredible things
(d) He says that belief is less important than action

4. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 5, is man’s purpose on the earth?
(a) To dream it
(b) To fulfill it
(c) To rule it
(d) To perfect it

5. 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) 2,000 A.D.
(c) 5,000 B.C.
(d) 500 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael elicit from the narrator in Chapter 4 regarding his creation myth?

2. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?

3. How does Ishmael define a story?

4. What does the narrator answer when Ishmael asks him, in Chapter 5, what man’s destiny is?

5. What is the big change that has taken place at the beginning of Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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