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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael elicit from the narrator in Chapter 4 regarding his creation myth?
(a) That his creation myth excludes the perspective of women
(b) That his creation myth is centered on mankind
(c) That his creation myth is damaging the earth
(d) That his creation myth is founded on falsehoods

2. What does Ishmael say he can offer the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) A set of practical tools for changing the world
(b) A new perception of the world
(c) Access to mystical experience
(d) A network of people who resist culture

3. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?
(a) A little at a time
(b) Systematically, in school
(c) In his earliest experience with his family
(d) All at once in church

4. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The war between good and evil
(b) God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
(c) God’s creation of the universe
(d) The evolution of man

5. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?
(a) A sense of dread
(b) A sense of rage
(c) A scar
(d) A tumor

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

2. What does Ishmael tell the narrator to do, when the narrator cannot say what man’s destiny is in Chapter 5?

3. How does Ishmael characterize the notion that agriculture started in the Fertile Crescent?

4. Where does Ishmael say he was born?

5. Where does Ishmael say mankind’s flaw is?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you characterize Ishmael’s tone with the narrator in general, as they talk regularly?

2. What does Ishmael say the narrator’s creation myth justifies?

3. What turning point does the narrator describe in his story of his culture’s history?

4. How do Ishmael and the narrator see the Takers as similar to early aeronauts?

5. What does Ishmael say man’s purpose is, in the narrator’s creation myth?

6. How does Ishmael say Hitler captivated the German people?

7. What is the premise that is being played out in the narrator’s creation myth, according to Ishmael?

8. What does Ishmael say will be the result, once the narrator learns to hear Mother Culture’s voice?

9. How does Ishmael say the Takers envision the earth?

10. Why does Walter Sokolow adopt Ishmael?

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