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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Art Owens?
(a) An energetic cannonball of a man
(b) A sly, backhanded snake
(c) A weary gentleman
(d) A hard-eyed black man

2. What does the narrator find when he returns to the office building in Chapter 10 after several days away from Ishmael?
(a) Ishmael is sick
(b) Ishmael has died
(c) Ishmael will not talk to him
(d) Ishmael has been evicted

3. For whose benefit does Ishmael say the Leavers accumulate and preserve knowledge?
(a) Their food supply
(b) The community of life
(c) The creatures they are responsible for
(d) Themselves

4. According to Ishmael, which is NOT a ‘trick’ the gods played on the Takers?
(a) Not exempting man from the laws that govern populations of animals and plants.
(b) Failing to create man after a special fashion unique in nature
(c) Refusing to put the world in the center of the solar system and universe
(d) Neglecting to write down their laws for the benefit of men

5. How does Ishmael characterize the law the narrator is looking for?
(a) A culture-defining law
(b) An unspoken law
(c) The law that ensures justice
(d) A peace-keeping law

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the work, in Taker culture, of killing off nature?

2. What does Mr. Partridge tell the narrator when he inquires at the Sokolow house in Chapter 10?

3. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?

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

5. In Chapter 11, how does Ishmael define culture?

(see the answer key)

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