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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 mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The facts themselves
(b) The chronology
(c) The arrangement of the facts
(d) The implied redemption

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

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

4. When does Ishmael say that human history began?
(a) 300 thousand years ago
(b) 3 million years ago
(c) 3 thousand years ago
(d) 30 thousand years ago

5. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?
(a) To teach the listener how to fulfill him or herself
(b) To put the listener to sleep
(c) To give the listener power
(d) To weed out the weak from the strong

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Ishmael say the Fertile Crescent plays in the narrator’s story?

2. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?

3. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?

4. What does Ishmael say the world was created for, in the narrator’s story in Chapter 4?

5. How does the narrator characterize the 1960s?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator characterize the problems with the narrator’s culture?

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

4. Why does Walter Sokolow adopt Ishmael?

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

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

7. How does Ishmael say that their discussion is like sightseeing?

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

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

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

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