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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 tell the narrator to do, when the narrator cannot say what man’s destiny is in Chapter 5?
(a) Think mythologically
(b) Think historically
(c) Think metaphorically
(d) Think emotionally

2. In Chapter 5, how does the narrator characterize the world without man?
(a) Paradise
(b) Raw material
(c) Post-apocalyptic dreamscape
(d) Bloody jungle

3. How does Ishmael say that men see the ruin of nature, according to the narrator’s culture’s mythology?
(a) As the result of God’s plan
(b) As the price to be paid for ruling the earth
(c) As the plan nature had for mankind
(d) As the visitation of god’s judgment

4. What does the narrator say was removed when man learned to farm?
(a) The limitations of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle
(b) The need to have respect for animals
(c) The temptation to control nature
(d) The desire for earthly paradise

5. Why does the narrator have a hard time identifying the creation myth of his culture?
(a) Because he never took the religious classes where he would have learned it
(b) Because the creation myth is a mystical secret
(c) Because he has been blinded by a limiting ideology
(d) Because creation myths are not myths to people who tell them

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?

2. How does Ishmael say Takers regard the world?

3. What does the narrator say is new about Ishmael’s expression at the beginning of Chapter 7?

4. When does the narrator recognize Ishmael in Chapter 1?

5. Where does Ishmael say people were looking, when they came to the conclusion that man had undermined the universe’s plan, that he would rule nature?

(see the answer key)

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