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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 Ishmael say the peace-keeping law promotes?
(a) Civilization
(b) Diversity
(c) Consolidation of power
(d) Longevity
2. What scenario does Ishmael describe in Chapter 7, which horrifies the narrator?
(a) A jungle where the animals have committee meetings
(b) A city where every plant and tree is ordered
(c) A city where the neighbors eat each other
(d) The meetings of the gods, where the gods do nothing but bicker
3. How does the narrator say that Hermann Hesse presents Leo’s “awesome secret wisdom”?
(a) He says that the novel does not describe it
(b) He says that the novel describes it in code
(c) He says that the novel is enigmatic on the topic of the wisdom
(d) He says that Leo describes it as a mystical vision
4. How does Ishmael say that men see the ruin of nature, according to the narrator’s culture’s mythology?
(a) As the result of God’s plan
(b) As the plan nature had for mankind
(c) As the price to be paid for ruling the earth
(d) As the visitation of god’s judgment
5. What emotion does the narrator say he sees in Ishmael’s eyes, as he realizes that this change has been made in Chapter 9?
(a) Sadness
(b) Demonic joy
(c) Distrust
(d) Wary speculation
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Ishmael characterize the Takers’ response to the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?
2. What reason explains the change of circumstances when the narrator returns to the office building after several days away from Ishmael in Chapter 10?
3. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?
4. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?
5. How does Ishmael say people think about prehistory, before the agricultural revolution?
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