3. Where is Ishmael’s reference to the Second Murderer drawn from?
(a) Homer’s The Iliad
(b) Mamet’s Oleanna
(c) Shakespeare’s Macbeth
(d) Plato’s Republic

4. What is Art Owens’ negotiating style?
(a) He is hostile and suspicious, and only gives ground with a fight
(b) He is amenable to make sacrifices in order to find an agreeable proposal
(c) He is somewhat flexible
(d) He does not budge at all

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

6. What does Ishmael say the peace-keeping law promotes?
(a) Consolidation of power
(b) Civilization
(c) Diversity
(d) Longevity

7. What is the narrator’s first strategy for reconnecting to Ishmael in Chapter 10?
(a) Posting an ad
(b) Finding Mrs. Sokolow
(c) Driving around looking
(d) Apologizing to him

8. What scenario does Ishmael describe in Chapter 7, which horrifies the narrator?
(a) A city where every plant and tree is ordered
(b) A jungle where the animals have committee meetings
(c) A city where the neighbors eat each other
(d) The meetings of the gods, where the gods do nothing but bicker

9. What is the second thing that the narrator says the Takers do, which is not done in nature?
(a) Steal other animals’ food
(b) Deny competitors access to food
(c) Sell their produce
(d) Turn killing into an abstract law

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

11. What event does Ishmael put at 8,000 B.C. on his timeline?
(a) The discovery of metallurgy
(b) The agricultural revolution
(c) The beginning of written culture
(d) The beginning of conquest-based warfare

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

13. What does Ishmael say is ironic about the story the Takers adopted about two thousand years ago?
(a) It had started as a joke
(b) The story did not originally have anything to do with them
(c) It had been created by their enemies
(d) It did not represent their beliefs

14. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 8, he would be looking for?
(a) Places where people’s stories were contradicted by their actions
(b) What the people said about their behavior
(c) What the people did
(d) What the people did not do

15. What subsequent interruption kept the narrator from returning for another few days in Chapter 10?
(a) Laziness
(b) A medical condition
(c) A woman
(d) A work deadline