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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 the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?
(a) A tumor
(b) A sense of rage
(c) A sense of dread
(d) A scar
2. How does the narrator characterize Ishmael’s expression when he gets the narrator to see that the idea that man should rule the earth is a myth?
(a) Ironic
(b) Triumphant
(c) Glum
(d) Smug
3. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?
(a) A bookcase
(b) A set of tools
(c) A stove
(d) A phonograph
4. Why does the narrator say he answers the newspaper ad?
(a) To see who else shows up
(b) To make sure that it is just a scam
(c) To see what he can learn
(d) To be part of the crowd
5. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
(b) The war between good and evil
(c) The evolution of man
(d) God’s creation of the universe
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does the narrator say the conquest narrative in Chapter 6 ends?
2. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?
3. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?
4. What event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?
5. How does Ishmael say Takers regard the world?
Short Essay Questions
1. What turning point does the narrator describe in his story of his culture’s history?
2. Describe the man who takes Ishmael from the menagerie.
3. How does Ishmael describe the difference between living in Africa and living in a zoo?
4. What does Ishmael say the narrator’s creation myth justifies?
5. What does Ishmael say is his greatest fantasy?
6. What does the sign that the narrator notices behind the gorilla say, and what does the narrator interpret it to mean?
7. How does Ishmael say the Takers envision the earth?
8. How does Ishmael say that their discussion is like sightseeing?
9. What is the premise that is being played out in the narrator’s creation myth, according to Ishmael?
10. What is the narrator’s creation myth?
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