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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event does Ishmael put at 8,000 B.C. on his timeline?
(a) The beginning of conquest-based warfare
(b) The discovery of metallurgy
(c) The beginning of written culture
(d) The agricultural revolution

2. What scenario does Ishmael introduce to test the narrator’s ideas about his imaginary culture?
(a) A warmonger
(b) An execution
(c) An election
(d) A sick person

3. When does the narrator recognize Ishmael in Chapter 1?
(a) When the keeper forces Ishmael to move
(b) When he is staring into his own eyes
(c) When Ishmael growls
(d) When Ishmael speaks to him

4. Who does Ishmael say is fueling the Third World population explosion?
(a) Third World farmers
(b) The World Bank
(c) First world farmers
(d) Women

5. Why is Ishmael reticent about telling the narrator what he wants to know in Chapter 11?
(a) He is afraid that the narrator will stop coming to him once he knows
(b) He feels the narrator is merely curious
(c) He does not want to divulge the information
(d) He is irritated by the narrator’s failure to prevent his eviction

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say he answers the newspaper ad?

2. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?

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

4. What does Ishmael say man’s importance must be, in the eyes of the gods, in the narrator’s creation myth?

5. How does Ishmael say the gods must have seen the world before man, according to the narrator’s culture’s story?

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