1. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 6, is the problem with his culture’s story?
(a) The narrator says that conquering the earth has meant destroying it
(b) The narrator says that technology has sped up the destruction of the earth so much that no one can stop it
(c) The narrator says that conquering the earth has provided freedoms that are worth the earth’s destruction.
(d) The narrator says that there has been a strong conservation movement, opposing industrial progress

2. How does Ishmael define a story?
(a) A scenario interrelating man, the world and the gods
(b) A fiction that makes factual life possible
(c) A set of events aligned by a human experience of them
(d) A manifestation of the self seeking its center through experience

3. When the narrator cannot answer Ishmael’s question, ‘how did man become man?’, how does Ishmael say they will address the question?
(a) Pragmatically
(b) Matter-of-factly
(c) Directly
(d) Obliquely

4. How does Ishmael describe civilization’s progress in Chapter 7?
(a) As a building built on water
(b) As a garden that has worn out the soil
(c) As a corpse that has been kept alive artificially
(d) As the free-fall of an aircraft that does not accord with the laws of aerodynamics

5. Why does the narrator say that he understands why Ishmael asked him to define the laws himself?
(a) Because he had to relinquish beliefs of his own, to see the laws
(b) Because Ishmael did not want him to be reliant upon him
(c) Because Ishmael wanted to get him accustomed to doing things for himself, for when Ishmael was no longer around
(d) Because if Ishmael had described them, he would not have thought them important