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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. From whose perspective does Ishmael tell a rival creation story in Chapter 4?
2. What does Ishmael say he wants, in Chapter 4, when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?
3. How does Ishmael characterize the notion that agriculture started in the Fertile Crescent?
4. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?
5. What does the narrator say is his first impression of the room in Chapter 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator react when Ishmael finally gets him to see that his culture’s narrative is just a myth—and what is the significance of the narrator’s response?
2. What does Ishmael say will be the result, once the narrator learns to hear Mother Culture’s voice?
3. What does Ishmael say is his greatest fantasy?
4. What does Ishmael say man’s purpose is, in the narrator’s creation myth?
5. How does Ishmael say the Takers envision the earth?
6. How does Ishmael characterize the earth before the development of human culture?
7. What turning point does the narrator describe in his story of his culture’s history?
8. What is the narrator’s creation myth?
9. Describe the man who takes Ishmael from the menagerie.
10. What does Ishmael say the Takers’ relationship to the Community of Life is?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
Essay Topic 2
Would you recommend Ishmael? For what purposes would you recommend Ishmael, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
Essay Topic 3
When is Ishmael most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
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