2. According to Ishmael, which is NOT a ‘trick’ the gods played on the Takers?
(a) Not exempting man from the laws that govern populations of animals and plants.
(b) Neglecting to write down their laws for the benefit of men
(c) Failing to create man after a special fashion unique in nature
(d) Refusing to put the world in the center of the solar system and universe

3. What is the literary term for Ishmael’s saying that he is cold?
(a) Foreshadowing
(b) Prophecy
(c) Denouement
(d) Falling action

4. What does Ishmael say ‘Adam’ means?
(a) Life
(b) The first man
(c) Breath
(d) Mankind

5. For whose benefit does Ishmael say the Leavers accumulate and preserve knowledge?
(a) The community of life
(b) Their food supply
(c) The creatures they are responsible for
(d) Themselves

6. What new name for the Takers do Ishmael and the narrator arrive at in their discussion in Chapter 12?
(a) Those who follow the old ways
(b) Those who live in the gods’ hands
(c) Those who know good and evil
(d) Those who invent themselves

7. For whose benefit does Ishmael say the Takers accumulate and preserve knowledge?
(a) The world
(b) The elect
(c) Their food supply
(d) Themselves

8. What does Ishmael say the narrator needs to tell him in Chapter 8 before the dialogue can resume?
(a) What he is willing to give up when the collapse comes
(b) What the community is in which man is only one member among equals
(c) What the law is that has been working from the beginning of time
(d) What the end result of the Takers’ civilization will be

9. What kind of act does Ishmael say the agricultural revolution was?
(a) Technological
(b) Intellectual
(c) Social
(d) Spiritual

10. How does Ishmael describe the first farmers?
(a) Technocrats
(b) Blunderers
(c) Bureaucrats
(d) Scientists

11. What does Ishmael ask the narrator to leave and come back with in Chapter 11?
(a) A plan for his future care
(b) An explanation for his ailments
(c) A legitimate reason for asking about the Leavers
(d) A genuine apology

12. In Chapter 12, how does Ishmael say man became man?
(a) By living in the hands of the gods
(b) By taking his fate upon himself
(c) By reassessing tradition every generation
(d) By following his intuitions

13. After the narrator describes his law, how does Ishmael reword it?
(a) You can compete but you cannot wage war
(b) You can murder, but only to eat
(c) The health of a community is found in the strength of its top predators
(d) You can eat your fill, but after a certain young age, the young have to kill their own food

14. Where does the narrator reunite with Ishmael in Chapter 10?
(a) At a motel
(b) At another office building
(c) At a carnival
(d) In the woods

15. How does Ishmael say the aeronauts proceeded to learn to fly?
(a) By following inspirations from their dreams
(b) By trial and error
(c) By research and observation
(d) By controlled experiments