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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 the narrator say is new about Ishmael’s expression at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Twinkle-eyed playfulness
(b) Gloominess
(c) A searching gaze
(d) Mocking raillery

2. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?
(a) Comfort
(b) Emptiness
(c) Wisdom
(d) Anger

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

4. What is a koan?
(a) A secret.
(b) A spur to meditation
(c) A riddle
(d) A paradox

5. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?
(a) As a movement that died in a crackdown
(b) As a fight that was defeated
(c) As a dwindling to irrelevance
(d) As a cooptation by corporations

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is ironic about the story the Takers adopted about two thousand years ago?

2. After the narrator describes his law, how does Ishmael reword it?

3. How does Ishmael characterize a community that does not live by the peace-keeping law?

4. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?

5. What distinction does Ishmael point out between Leaver and Taker cultures?

(see the answer key)

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