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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 find when he returns to the office building in Chapter 10 after several days away from Ishmael?
(a) Ishmael is sick
(b) Ishmael has been evicted
(c) Ishmael will not talk to him
(d) Ishmael has died

2. What is the big change that has taken place at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Ishmael and the narrator meet in a new location
(b) Ishmael is on the narrator’s side of the glass
(c) Ishmael has been evicted
(d) Ishmael is speaking aloud

3. What is the root of the narrator’s objection to hunter-gatherer life?
(a) Hunter-gatherers are always struggling to stay alive
(b) Hunter-gatherers do not have access to modern medicine
(c) Hunter-gatherers are more liable to die young
(d) Hunter-gatherers do not treat women as equals

4. Where does the narrator reunite with Ishmael in Chapter 10?
(a) At a motel
(b) At a carnival
(c) At another office building
(d) In the woods

5. What looming crisis does Ishmael imply will correct the ‘Takers’’ excesses?
(a) Warfare
(b) Population explosion
(c) Drought
(d) Famine

Short Answer Questions

1. What scenario does Ishmael introduce to test the narrator’s ideas about his imaginary culture?

2. What is the narrator’s first strategy for reconnecting to Ishmael in Chapter 10?

3. What does Ishmael say the Takers repudiated when they split from the Leavers?

4. What does Ishmael say has been the result of the Takers’ interpretation of the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?

5. What new name for the Takers do Ishmael and the narrator arrive at in their discussion in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say is his chief objection to the Leavers’ lifestyle?

2. What are the three things that Takers do that nothing else in nature does?

3. What are the three tricks Ishmael says the gods played on the Takers?

4. How does Ishmael characterize the experiment that is modern civilization?

5. What are the gods wary of, in letting Adam have the knowledge of good and evil?

6. What surprising behavior does Ishmael describe for the narrator in an imaginary hospitable city?

7. Describe the narrator’s negotiations with Art Owens.

8. Why does the narrator say that he is depressed when he does not see Ishmael for a few days?

9. How does Ishmael says man becomes man?

10. What objection does Ishmael make to the narrator’s questions at the beginning of Chapter 11?

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