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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What knowledge does Ishmael say the gods have that allows them to rule the world?
(a) Knowledge of life
(b) Knowledge of justice
(c) Knowledge of death
(d) Knowledge of good and evil

3. What is the literary term for the running comparison to aeronauts?
(a) Analogy
(b) Parallel syntax
(c) Parody
(d) Anaphora

4. What does the narrator say the ad in Chapter 1 was looking for?
(a) Someone who wanted to work with gorillas
(b) Someone who wanted to teach
(c) Someone who wanted to change the world
(d) Someone who wanted to make an investment

5. Why does the narrator say he groans when Ishmael asks him how man became man?
(a) He feels that Ishmael is mocking him
(b) He says that questions of that sort intimidate him
(c) He says that he is impatient to know already
(d) He says that he is tired of being the student who does not know things

Short Answer Questions

1. What temptation does Ishmael say Adam succumbed to when he took the fruit from Eve in the Bible story?

2. What is the second thing that the narrator says the Takers do, which is not done in nature?

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

4. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?

5. How does the narrator say that Hermann Hesse presents Leo’s “awesome secret wisdom”?

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