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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) Denouement
(b) Prophecy
(c) Foreshadowing
(d) Falling action

2. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The war between good and evil
(b) The evolution of man
(c) God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
(d) God’s creation of the universe

3. How does the narrator continue his dialogue with Ishmael in a new setting in Chapter 10?
(a) He bribes Ishmael’s caretaker
(b) He convinced the Sokolows to pay for a place for him
(c) He apologizes until Ishmael relents
(d) He sneaks Ishmael out of the office building

4. What new name for the Takers do Ishmael and the narrator arrive at in their discussion in Chapter 12?
(a) Those who invent themselves
(b) Those who live in the gods’ hands
(c) Those who know good and evil
(d) Those who follow the old ways

5. What explanation does the narrator ultimately give for why he wants to know a specific question in Chapter 11?
(a) He admits that he wants to discredit Ishmael by seeing the other side of his teachings
(b) He wants to stop thinking about what Ishmael has told him
(c) He wants to publish Ishmael’s teachings
(d) He wants to stop the destruction of the world

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael characterize the notion that agriculture started in the Fertile Crescent?

2. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?

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

4. What does Ishmael say a community lacks, when it has lost its diversity?

5. What knowledge do the gods discover that allows them to rule the world without being criminals or negligent?

(see the answer key)

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