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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?
(a) He describes them as animals in a stampede
(b) He characterizes them as panicked fish in a school
(c) He characterizes them as mindless drones
(d) He describes them as silly children

2. What does the narrator say made the difference between men before and the men that live now?
(a) Stories
(b) Language
(c) Agriculture
(d) Writing

3. What scenario does Ishmael introduce to test the narrator’s ideas about his imaginary culture?
(a) An execution
(b) A warmonger
(c) An election
(d) A sick person

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

5. Where does Ishmael say he was born?
(a) Tibet.
(b) West Africa
(c) India
(d) Memphis

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?

3. What is the narrator’s reaction when he hears the rival creation story Ishmael tells in Chapter 4?

4. How does Ishmael say the gods must have seen the world before man, according to the narrator’s culture’s story?

5. What does the narrator say he expected when he answered the newspaper ad?

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