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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What kind of act does Ishmael say the agricultural revolution was?
(a) Spiritual
(b) Technological
(c) Intellectual
(d) Social
2. What does Ishmael say the world was created for, in the narrator’s story in Chapter 4?
(a) The fulfillment of each of its creatures
(b) The fulfillment of divine ideas
(c) No purpose at all
(d) Man’s use
3. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 6, is the problem with his culture’s story?
(a) The narrator says that conquering the earth has provided freedoms that are worth the earth’s destruction.
(b) The narrator says that technology has sped up the destruction of the earth so much that no one can stop it
(c) The narrator says that conquering the earth has meant destroying it
(d) The narrator says that there has been a strong conservation movement, opposing industrial progress
4. When does Ishmael say the event he put at 8,000 B.C. on his timeline ended?
(a) He says that it has not ended yet
(b) 5,000 B.C.
(c) 2,000 A.D.
(d) 500 B.C.
5. What scenario does Ishmael describe in Chapter 7, which horrifies the narrator?
(a) A city where the neighbors eat each other
(b) A jungle where the animals have committee meetings
(c) A city where every plant and tree is ordered
(d) The meetings of the gods, where the gods do nothing but bicker
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
2. How does the narrator characterize the 1960s?
3. What knowledge does Ishmael say the gods have that allows them to rule the world?
4. In Chapter 4, why does the narrator say he does not display the emotion he wants when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?
5. What does the narrator say made the difference between men before and the men that live now?
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