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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?
(a) To give the listener power
(b) To weed out the weak from the strong
(c) To teach the listener how to fulfill him or herself
(d) To put the listener to sleep

2. What does Ishmael say ‘Adam’ means?
(a) The first man
(b) Mankind
(c) Life
(d) Breath

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

4. What explanation does the narrator ultimately give for why he wants to know a specific question in Chapter 11?
(a) He admits that he wants to discredit Ishmael by seeing the other side of his teachings
(b) He wants to stop the destruction of the world
(c) He wants to publish Ishmael’s teachings
(d) He wants to stop thinking about what Ishmael has told him

5. How does Ishmael say people think about prehistory, before the agricultural revolution?
(a) Intriguing
(b) Appealing
(c) Idealistically
(d) Loathsome

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a paean?

2. What event does Ishmael put at 8,000 B.C. on his timeline?

3. What does Mr. Partridge tell the narrator when he inquires at the Sokolow house in Chapter 10?

4. What does Ishmael say is ironic about the story the Takers adopted about two thousand years ago?

5. What does Ishmael say the world was created for, in the narrator’s story in Chapter 4?

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