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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Ishmael say the event he put at 8,000 B.C. on his timeline ended?
(a) 2,000 A.D.
(b) He says that it has not ended yet
(c) 500 B.C.
(d) 5,000 B.C.

2. How does the narrator characterize the 1960s?
(a) As a the time when culture was completely lost
(b) As a period of hopeless despair
(c) As the great cultural leap forward
(d) As the time of the children’s revolt

3. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?
(a) A scar
(b) A tumor
(c) A sense of rage
(d) A sense of dread

4. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
(b) God’s creation of the universe
(c) The war between good and evil
(d) The evolution of man

5. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?
(a) Father Time
(b) Mother Nature
(c) God the Father
(d) Mother Culture

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say was removed when man learned to farm?

2. What does Ishmael tell the narrator to do, when the narrator cannot say what man’s destiny is in Chapter 5?

3. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?

4. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?

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

(see the answer key)

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