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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the narrator describes his law, how does Ishmael reword it?
(a) The health of a community is found in the strength of its top predators
(b) You can compete but you cannot wage war
(c) You can murder, but only to eat
(d) You can eat your fill, but after a certain young age, the young have to kill their own food

2. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?
(a) If he wanted to farm, he would have to kill off the hunter-gatherers
(b) If he stayed in one place, he would be subject to wars
(c) If he traded with other cultures, he would lose his women
(d) If he stayed in one place, he would exhaust his food supply

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

4. How does the narrator say, in Chapter 4, that he got himself to see the middle of the story?
(a) By thinking about writing it as a treatment for Nova
(b) By thinking about what a Martian observer would see
(c) By thinking about telling it to a child
(d) By thinking about the moments when he learned the story himself

5. How does the narrator characterize Ishmael’s expression when he gets the narrator to see that the idea that man should rule the earth is a myth?
(a) Triumphant
(b) Glum
(c) Ironic
(d) Smug

Short Answer Questions

1. Where, in the narrator’s account, does the destruction of the earth get reversed?

2. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?

3. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?

4. In Chapter 4, how does the narrator say men used to live before they became men?

5. How does Ishmael say the aeronauts proceeded to learn to fly?

(see the answer key)

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