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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 the narrator needs to tell him in Chapter 8 before the dialogue can resume?
(a) What he is willing to give up when the collapse comes
(b) What the community is in which man is only one member among equals
(c) What the law is that has been working from the beginning of time
(d) What the end result of the Takers’ civilization will be

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) Like a child
(b) Imaginatively
(c) Mythological
(d) Counter intuitively

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

4. After the narrator describes his law, how does Ishmael reword it?
(a) The health of a community is found in the strength of its top predators
(b) You can compete but you cannot wage war
(c) You can murder, but only to eat
(d) You can eat your fill, but after a certain young age, the young have to kill their own food

5. How does the narrator characterize the work, in Taker culture, of killing off nature?
(a) Sacrilegious
(b) Tragic
(c) Holy
(d) Necessary

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find when he returns to the office building in Chapter 10 after several days away from Ishmael?

2. When does the narrator recognize Ishmael in Chapter 1?

3. How does the narrator say, in Chapter 4, that he got himself to see the middle of the story?

4. How does Ishmael characterize the law the narrator is looking for?

5. What is the big change that has taken place at the beginning of Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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