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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 world was created for, in the narrator’s story in Chapter 4?
(a) The fulfillment of divine ideas
(b) No purpose at all
(c) The fulfillment of each of its creatures
(d) Man’s use

2. Where, in the narrator’s account, does the destruction of the earth get reversed?
(a) In the future, with the children
(b) It never does
(c) As soon as someone discovers how to make money from healing the natural world
(d) As soon as the political parties can come to agreement

3. What event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?
(a) The birth of agriculture
(b) The beginning of writing
(c) The development of trade routes
(d) The discovery of metallurgy

4. What does Ishmael say a community lacks, when it has lost its diversity?
(a) A clear purpose
(b) Survival value
(c) Checks and balances
(d) Rigidity of roles

5. What is the literary term for Ishmael’s saying that he is cold?
(a) Falling action
(b) Foreshadowing
(c) Prophecy
(d) Denouement

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the second thing that the narrator says the Takers do, which is not done in nature?

3. What does Ishmael say is the pinnacle of the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

4. What does the narrator say the ad in Chapter 1 was looking for?

5. How long ago did the Takers’ story come into existence?

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