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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago did the Takers’ story come into existence?
(a) 2,000 years ago
(b) 20-30 thousand years ago
(c) 10-12 thousand years ago
(d) 200-300 years ago

2. In Chapter 4, how does the narrator say men used to live before they became men?
(a) Like the least noble creatures
(b) Like every other creature
(c) Like the chosen creatures
(d) He says that they were always men

3. Why does the narrator say he feels a particular feeling after taking a few days off from his discussion with the narrator in Chapter 8?
(a) Because he is seeing clearly for the first time in his life
(b) Because he is confident that he can use his new knowledge to change things
(c) Because he does not believe that he can change anything himself
(d) Because he expects to be abandoned once he has finished Ishmael’s teachings

4. How does the narrator characterize Ishmael’s expression when he gets the narrator to see that the idea that man should rule the earth is a myth?
(a) Glum
(b) Smug
(c) Ironic
(d) Triumphant

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the literary term for Ishmael’s saying that he is cold?

3. What is a koan?

4. Where is Ishmael’s reference to the Second Murderer drawn from?

5. What does Ishmael ask the narrator to leave and come back with in Chapter 11?

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