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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ishmael characterize the notion that agriculture started in the Fertile Crescent?
(a) He says that it is subject to much debate
(b) He says that it is an old hat
(c) He says that it has not been proved yet
(d) He says that it is undisputed

2. In Chapter 3, how does Ishmael tell the narrator to think, when he tries to get him to see the myth of his culture?
(a) Mythological
(b) Counter intuitively
(c) Like a child
(d) Imaginatively

3. What does Ishmael say keeps nature in balance?
(a) The migration of birds and whales
(b) The relationship between feeders and predators
(c) The cycle of the seasons
(d) The process of natural selection

4. What reason explains the change of circumstances when the narrator returns to the office building after several days away from Ishmael in Chapter 10?
(a) Ishmael’s caretaker was not paying the rent
(b) Ishmael was insulted by the narrator’s days away
(c) Ishmael was getting old
(d) Ishmael met another student

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael characterize man’s progress, once he discovered agriculture?

2. According to Ishmael, which is NOT a ‘trick’ the gods played on the Takers?

3. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?

4. What item does the narrator bring Ishmael at the carnival?

5. How does Ishmael propose, in Chapter 7, to learn how they can find out for themselves how to live?

(see the answer key)

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