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

2. How does Ishmael characterize the gods in his description of their debates?
(a) As short-sighted people
(b) As squabblers
(c) As troublemakers
(d) As wise men

3. How does Ishmael get the narrator to recognize the limitation of his creation myth?
(a) By asking him to consider whether his own discontent was part of evolution as well
(b) By asking him to describe the same story from an ant’s perspective
(c) By asking him whether evolution continued beyond man
(d) By asking him to think about the world without people in it

4. What is the second thing that the narrator says the Takers do, which is not done in nature?
(a) Deny competitors access to food
(b) Turn killing into an abstract law
(c) Steal other animals’ food
(d) Sell their produce

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator accuse himself of, when he hears the news about Ishmael at the end of the book?

2. Who does the narrator tell about Ishmael at the end of the book?

3. How does the narrator say, in Chapter 4, that he got himself to see the middle of the story?

4. In Chapter 4, why does the narrator say he does not display the emotion he wants when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?

5. How does Ishmael characterize the law the narrator is looking for?

(see the answer key)

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