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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 is Art Owens’ negotiating style?
(a) He is hostile and suspicious, and only gives ground with a fight
(b) He is amenable to make sacrifices in order to find an agreeable proposal
(c) He is somewhat flexible
(d) He does not budge at all

2. What reason explains the change of circumstances when the narrator returns to the office building after several days away from Ishmael in Chapter 10?
(a) Ishmael met another student
(b) Ishmael was insulted by the narrator’s days away
(c) Ishmael’s caretaker was not paying the rent
(d) Ishmael was getting old

3. Who does Ishmael say is fueling the Third World population explosion?
(a) Women
(b) Third World farmers
(c) First world farmers
(d) The World Bank

4. What new name for the Leavers do Ishmael and the narrator arrive at in their discussion in Chapter 12?
(a) Those who follow the old ways
(b) Those who know good and evil
(c) Those who invent themselves
(d) Those who live in the gods’ hands

5. What does the narrator say when Ishmael asks if he would go back to prehistoric times?
(a) He qualifies his agreement
(b) He says that he would go gladly
(c) He refuses
(d) He hems and haws and does not answer

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say that he understands why Ishmael asked him to define the laws himself?

2. What knowledge does Ishmael say the early flyers would have fond useful in their attempts?

3. When the narrator cannot answer Ishmael’s question, ‘how did man become man?’, how does Ishmael say they will address the question?

4. When does Ishmael say the event he put at 8,000 B.C. on his timeline ended?

5. According to Ishmael, which is NOT a ‘trick’ the gods played on the Takers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What keeps the narrator from returning to the office building for a few days?

2. How does Ishmael say the Takers are fulfilling the story in which creation came to an end with them?

3. What major change has taken place in the dialogue in Chapter 9, and what has brought this change about?

4. How does Ishmael characterize the debate among the gods about an equitable way to take care of the animals?

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

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

7. How does Ishmael says man becomes man?

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

9. What argument does the narrator offer for why the Takers’ culture is superior to the Leavers’?

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

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