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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator cannot answer Ishmael’s question, ‘how did man become man?’, how does Ishmael say they will address the question?
(a) Obliquely
(b) Matter-of-factly
(c) Directly
(d) Pragmatically

2. How does Ishmael respond when the narrator says that he does not believe that he is part of a story?
(a) He says that belief is less important than action
(b) He says that belief is the beginning of resistance
(c) He says that belief is unimportant
(d) He says that it is easier to believe in more incredible things

3. What looming crisis does Ishmael imply will correct the ‘Takers’’ excesses?
(a) Population explosion
(b) Drought
(c) Warfare
(d) Famine

4. What new name for the Leavers do Ishmael and the narrator arrive at in their discussion in Chapter 12?
(a) Those who live in the gods’ hands
(b) Those who follow the old ways
(c) Those who know good and evil
(d) Those who invent themselves

5. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of this premise of the Leavers' story?
(a) That the world goes on forever
(b) That man can become his own master
(c) That man can be perfected
(d) That the past can be repudiated

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?

2. How does Ishmael say Takers regard the world?

3. What does the narrator say he feels when he takes a few days off from his discussion with Ishmael in Chapter 8?

4. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?

5. What temptation does Ishmael say Adam succumbed to when he took the fruit from Eve in the Bible story?

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