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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does it take the narrator to come up with the laws Ishmael asked him to define?
(a) Three days
(b) One day
(c) Two weeks
(d) Four days

2. 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

3. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 5, man did once he made the development that distinguished him from his ancestors?
(a) Set about mastering the world
(b) Set about discovering himself
(c) Set about telling stories about the exile from the Garden
(d) Set about learning from the animals

4. 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) Man’s use
(d) The fulfillment of each of its creatures

5. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?
(a) A distraction
(b) Center of the world
(c) Legendary birthplace of agriculture
(d) The birthplace of culture

Short Answer Questions

1. What method does the narrator say he would use, to deduce the laws of the group Ishmael describes in Chapter 7?

2. What does Ishmael say he wants, in Chapter 4, when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?

3. What does the narrator say is new about Ishmael’s expression at the beginning of Chapter 7?

4. What is the narrator’s first strategy for reconnecting to Ishmael in Chapter 10?

5. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?

(see the answer key)

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