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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 6, is the problem with his culture’s story?
(a) The narrator says that there has been a strong conservation movement, opposing industrial progress
(b) The narrator says that conquering the earth has meant destroying it
(c) The narrator says that technology has sped up the destruction of the earth so much that no one can stop it
(d) The narrator says that conquering the earth has provided freedoms that are worth the earth’s destruction.

2. What does Ishmael say is mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The implied redemption
(b) The chronology
(c) The facts themselves
(d) The arrangement of the facts

3. What is the ‘but’ Ishmael sees in the narrator’s story: “The world was made for man to conquer, and turn into a paradise--except for what”?
(a) People screwed it up
(b) Wealth was never going to be distributed equitably
(c) The natural world would not support all of men’s plans
(d) Man was always going to be able to imagine more than he could get for himself

4. What does Ishmael tell the narrator to do, when the narrator cannot say what man’s destiny is in Chapter 5?
(a) Think emotionally
(b) Think metaphorically
(c) Think historically
(d) Think mythologically

5. What temptation does Ishmael say Adam succumbed to when he took the fruit from Eve in the Bible story?
(a) The temptation to live without limit
(b) The temptation to rule over men
(c) The temptation to have a glorious name
(d) The temptation to have power over Eve

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he expected when he answered the newspaper ad?

2. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of this premise of the Leavers' story?

3. According to Ishmael, which is NOT a ‘trick’ the gods played on the Takers?

4. What has the narrator’s coldness become, now that he mentions it to Ishmael a second time, at the end of Chapter 5?

5. How does Ishmael describe the first farmers?

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