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

2. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?
(a) In his earliest experience with his family
(b) Systematically, in school
(c) A little at a time
(d) All at once in church

3. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?
(a) As a fight that was defeated
(b) As a movement that died in a crackdown
(c) As a cooptation by corporations
(d) As a dwindling to irrelevance

4. Where does Ishmael say mankind’s flaw is?
(a) In human nature itself
(b) In the development of agriculture
(c) In its story of its origins
(d) In the divine plan for mankind

5. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?
(a) If he stayed in one place, he would be subject to wars
(b) If he wanted to farm, he would have to kill off the hunter-gatherers
(c) If he stayed in one place, he would exhaust his food supply
(d) If he traded with other cultures, he would lose his women

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a koan?

2. Where does the narrator reunite with Ishmael in Chapter 10?

3. What item does the narrator bring Ishmael at the carnival?

4. What does the narrator find when he gets to the carnival grounds at the end of the book?

5. What reason explains the change of circumstances when the narrator returns to the office building after several days away from Ishmael in Chapter 10?

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