Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What has the narrator’s coldness become, now that he mentions it to Ishmael a second time, at the end of Chapter 5?

A symbol

A trope

A character

A motif

2.

What does the narrator accuse himself of, when he hears the news about Ishmael at the end of the book?

Hardheartedness

Stupidity

Egotism

Blindness

3.

What is the root of the narrator’s objection to hunter-gatherer life?

Hunter-gatherers are more liable to die young

Hunter-gatherers do not treat women as equals

Hunter-gatherers do not have access to modern medicine

Hunter-gatherers are always struggling to stay alive

4.

How does Ishmael characterize man’s progress, once he discovered agriculture?

Meteoric

Fits and starts

Slow, till he learned how to navigate the ocean

Plodding

5.

What does the narrator say, in Chapter 6, is the problem with his culture’s story?

The narrator says that conquering the earth has provided freedoms that are worth the earth’s destruction.

The narrator says that technology has sped up the destruction of the earth so much that no one can stop it

The narrator says that conquering the earth has meant destroying it

The narrator says that there has been a strong conservation movement, opposing industrial progress

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