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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What temptation does Ishmael say Adam succumbed to when he took the fruit from Eve in the Bible story?
(a) The temptation to have a glorious name
(b) The temptation to live without limit
(c) The temptation to rule over men
(d) The temptation to have power over Eve

2. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?
(a) Center of the world
(b) Legendary birthplace of agriculture
(c) A distraction
(d) The birthplace of culture

3. How does Ishmael characterize the law the narrator is looking for?
(a) An unspoken law
(b) The law that ensures justice
(c) A culture-defining law
(d) A peace-keeping law

4. Where is Ishmael’s reference to the Second Murderer drawn from?
(a) Shakespeare’s Macbeth
(b) Homer’s The Iliad
(c) Plato’s Republic
(d) Mamet’s Oleanna

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say that he understands why Ishmael asked him to define the laws himself?

2. What is the big change that has taken place at the beginning of Chapter 9?

3. How does the narrator continue his dialogue with Ishmael in a new setting in Chapter 10?

4. How does Ishmael say people think about prehistory, before the agricultural revolution?

5. What is the second thing that the narrator says the Takers do, which is not done in nature?

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