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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the root of the narrator’s objection to hunter-gatherer life?
(a) Hunter-gatherers do not have access to modern medicine
(b) Hunter-gatherers are always struggling to stay alive
(c) Hunter-gatherers are more liable to die young
(d) Hunter-gatherers do not treat women as equals

2. What subsequent interruption kept the narrator from returning for another few days in Chapter 10?
(a) A medical condition
(b) Laziness
(c) A woman
(d) A work deadline

3. In Chapter 5, what perspective does Ishmael say the narrator should look at the world from?
(a) From the earth’s perspective
(b) From a jellyfish’s perspective
(c) From outer space
(d) From a woman’s perspective

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

5. What is the big change that has taken place at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Ishmael is on the narrator’s side of the glass
(b) Ishmael has been evicted
(c) Ishmael and the narrator meet in a new location
(d) Ishmael is speaking aloud

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael elicit from the narrator in Chapter 4 regarding his creation myth?

2. What does the narrator say he does with the newspaper the first time he reads Ishmael’s ad?

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

4. Why has the change in Chapter 9 come about?

5. How does Ishmael say people think about prehistory, before the agricultural revolution?

(see the answer key)

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