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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 event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?
(a) The development of trade routes
(b) The birth of agriculture
(c) The discovery of metallurgy
(d) The beginning of writing

2. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?
(a) Mother Culture
(b) God the Father
(c) Mother Nature
(d) Father Time

3. Where does Ishmael say people were looking, when they came to the conclusion that man had undermined the universe’s plan, that he would rule nature?
(a) To the order of the cosmos
(b) To human history itself
(c) To the tragedy of warfare
(d) To the squalor of cities

4. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?
(a) Rich and poor
(b) Adults and children
(c) Civilized and primitive
(d) First world and third world

5. What does the narrator say the ad in Chapter 1 was looking for?
(a) Someone who wanted to make an investment
(b) Someone who wanted to work with gorillas
(c) Someone who wanted to change the world
(d) Someone who wanted to teach

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?

2. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?

3. From whose perspective does Ishmael tell a rival creation story in Chapter 4?

4. When does the narrator’s creation story begin?

5. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Walter Sokolow adopt Ishmael?

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

4. What is the ‘but’ Ishmael says is part of the narrator’s culture’s myth, and where does the ‘but’ come from?

5. Describe the narrator’s first encounter with Ishmael.

6. What is the narrator’s creation myth?

7. Describe the man who takes Ishmael from the menagerie.

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

9. What are the definitions Ishmael lays out for the narrator?

10. Why does Ishmael provide the narrator with a tape recorder?

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