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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 say is the premise of the narrator’s creation myth?
(a) That the world is made for man
(b) That man belongs in the midst, not on the top of the community of life
(c) That man is an exile in his consciousness
(d) That the world is a mystery no one understands

2. How does Ishmael get the narrator to recognize the limitation of his creation myth?
(a) By asking him to describe the same story from an ant’s perspective
(b) By asking him whether evolution continued beyond man
(c) By asking him to think about the world without people in it
(d) By asking him to consider whether his own discontent was part of evolution as well

3. In Chapter 5, what perspective does Ishmael say the narrator should look at the world from?
(a) From a jellyfish’s perspective
(b) From a woman’s perspective
(c) From outer space
(d) From the earth’s perspective

4. In Chapter 3, how does Ishmael tell the narrator to think, when he tries to get him to see the myth of his culture?
(a) Mythological
(b) Like a child
(c) Imaginatively
(d) Counter intuitively

5. In Chapter 4, how does the narrator say men used to live before they became men?
(a) Like every other creature
(b) He says that they were always men
(c) Like the chosen creatures
(d) Like the least noble creatures

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the narrator say he does with the newspaper the first time he reads Ishmael’s ad?

3. What does Ishmael say is the pinnacle of the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

4. Where does Ishmael say he was born?

5. What does the narrator say was removed when man learned to farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the consequence of agriculture in the narrator’s account?

2. What is the narrator’s reaction when he finally recognizes his creation myth as a myth?

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

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

5. What correlation does Ishmael draw between Nazi Germany and the narrator’s culture?

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

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

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

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

10. What is the narrator’s creation myth?

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