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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. How does the narrator characterize Art Owens?
2. How does Ishmael say the aeronauts proceeded to learn to fly?
3. What scenario does Ishmael describe in Chapter 7, which horrifies the narrator?
4. What is the big change that has taken place at the beginning of Chapter 9?
5. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 7, Mother Culture says about humanity’s relation to nature’s laws?
Short Essay Questions
1. What major change has taken place in the dialogue in Chapter 9, and what has brought this change about?
2. What reading does Ishmael give the Bible story of Cain and Abel?
3. What does the narrator say is his chief objection to the Leavers’ lifestyle?
4. What surprising behavior does Ishmael describe for the narrator in an imaginary hospitable city?
5. What do Ishmael and the narrator agree on for a definition of ‘culture’?
6. How does Ishmael says man becomes man?
7. How does Ishmael say the Takers explain their divergence from the peace-keeping law that has kept nature harmonious for three million years?
8. How do Ishmael and the narrator say that culture changed when the agricultural revolution took place?
9. What argument does the narrator offer for why the Takers’ culture is superior to the Leavers’?
10. What are the three things that Takers do that nothing else in nature does?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
How do you think times have changed since Daniel Quinn published Ishmael in 1992? Is Ishmael’s story still applicable? Have Ishmael’s teachings been learned anywhere? Where are people advocating Ishmael’s views, and what influence are they having?
Essay Topic 3
What is the benefit of delivering this information about mythology and the world in a dialogue with a telepathic gorilla, instead of a straight-forward essay or non-fiction book about myth and the history of mankind?
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