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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 expects to be abandoned once he has finished Ishmael’s teachings
(d) Because he does not believe that he can change anything himself

2. What does Ishmael say he wants, in Chapter 4, when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?
(a) Astonishment
(b) Terror
(c) Humility
(d) Gratitude

3. What does Ishmael say keeps nature in balance?
(a) The cycle of the seasons
(b) The process of natural selection
(c) The relationship between feeders and predators
(d) The migration of birds and whales

4. In Chapter 11, how does Ishmael define culture?
(a) As the total set of a people’s actions and words
(b) As the things a people cannot give up without becoming someone else
(c) As the set of answers to a people’s most pressing questions
(d) As the knowledge that is passed down generation to generation

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?

5. How does Ishmael characterize the Takers’ response to the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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