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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 11, how does Ishmael define culture?
(a) As the things a people cannot give up without becoming someone else
(b) As the total set of a people’s actions and words
(c) As the knowledge that is passed down generation to generation
(d) As the set of answers to a people’s most pressing questions

2. How does Ishmael describe civilization’s progress in Chapter 7?
(a) As a corpse that has been kept alive artificially
(b) As a garden that has worn out the soil
(c) As the free-fall of an aircraft that does not accord with the laws of aerodynamics
(d) As a building built on water

3. What sidetracks the narrator from his plan to spring Ishmael in Chapter 13?
(a) A visiting relative
(b) A blown cooling fan
(c) A sore tooth
(d) A deadline

4. Where does Ishmael say people were looking, when they came to the conclusion that man had undermined the universe’s plan, that he would rule nature?
(a) To the tragedy of warfare
(b) To the squalor of cities
(c) To human history itself
(d) To the order of the cosmos

5. When does Ishmael say the Take population will contract?
(a) When the populace outstrips its food supply
(b) When it runs out of natural resources
(c) When the population bomb explodes
(d) When the earth rebels

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Ishmael characterize the Takers’ response to the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?

3. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?

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

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

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