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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. How does Ishmael characterize the notion that agriculture started in the Fertile Crescent?
(a) He says that it is subject to much debate
(b) He says that it is an old hat
(c) He says that it has not been proved yet
(d) He says that it is undisputed

2. Where, in the narrator’s account, does the destruction of the earth get reversed?
(a) In the future, with the children
(b) As soon as the political parties can come to agreement
(c) It never does
(d) As soon as someone discovers how to make money from healing the natural world

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

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

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 change the world
(c) Someone who wanted to teach
(d) Someone who wanted to work with gorillas

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say man’s importance must be, in the eyes of the gods, in the narrator’s creation myth?

2. In Chapter 6, what does Ishmael say is unobtainable in the narrator’s culture?

3. How does Ishmael say the followers of Copernicus convinced people to change their view of heliocentrism?

4. Where does the narrator say the conquest narrative in Chapter 6 ends?

5. What does Ishmael say he can offer the narrator in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is the narrator so upset to see Ishmael’s ad in the paper?

4. What does the narrator’s culture’s reliance on prophets indicate to Ishmael?

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

6. What is the rival creation story Ishmael tells the narrator?

7. How does Ishmael describe the difference between living in Africa and living in a zoo?

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

9. What does Ishmael say the Takers’ relationship to the Community of Life is?

10. How does Ishmael characterize the earth before the development of human culture?

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