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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 the narrator needs to tell him in Chapter 8 before the dialogue can resume?
(a) What the end result of the Takers’ civilization will be
(b) What the law is that has been working from the beginning of time
(c) What he is willing to give up when the collapse comes
(d) What the community is in which man is only one member among equals
2. What does the narrator say is the first thing that the Takers do that no one else in nature does?
(a) Claim territory for themselves
(b) Execute murderers
(c) Rationalize their murder
(d) Exterminate competitors
3. What assumption does Ishmael say the Takers must have made about the world in order to follow the laws they follow?
(a) That there is something fundamentally wrong with humankind
(b) That man can only return to nature through culture
(c) That men are demi-gods
(d) That time was running out for the world unless they could fix it
4. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?
(a) That we have to find its proper owners
(b) That we have to take care of it
(c) That we can do what we want with it
(d) That we owe someone an enormous debt of gratitude
5. What does Ishmael say a community lacks, when it has lost its diversity?
(a) A clear purpose
(b) Rigidity of roles
(c) Survival value
(d) Checks and balances
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?
2. What does Ishmael say has been the result of the Takers’ interpretation of the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?
3. How does Ishmael characterize the notion that agriculture started in the Fertile Crescent?
4. What is the literary term that describes the narrator’s directly addressing the reader?
5. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?
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