Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What does the narrator say when Ishmael asks if he would go back to prehistoric times?

He refuses

He qualifies his agreement

He hems and haws and does not answer

He says that he would go gladly

2.

How does Ishmael characterize the Takers’ response to the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?

They found that they could use it to their unfair advantage

They found that they could get away with breaking it indefinitely

They claimed that it did not apply to them

They argued that it was against their constitution

3.

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

A motif

A symbol

A trope

A character

4.

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

The narrator says that conquering the earth has meant destroying it

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 there has been a strong conservation movement, opposing industrial progress

5.

In Chapter 12, how does Ishmael say man became man?

By reassessing tradition every generation

By taking his fate upon himself

By living in the hands of the gods

By following his intuitions

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