Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

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

Hunter-gatherers do not treat women as equals

Hunter-gatherers are always struggling to stay alive

Hunter-gatherers are more liable to die young

Hunter-gatherers do not have access to modern medicine

2.

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

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

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

3.

What method does the narrator say he would use, to deduce the laws of the group Ishmael describes in Chapter 7?

Library research

Controlled experiments

Interviews

Close observation

4.

What does the narrator answer when Ishmael asks him, in Chapter 5, what man’s destiny is?

To fulfill himself

To build civilization

To turn the planet into a garden

To take care of other people

5.

What does Ishmael say ‘Eve’ means?

Helpmeet

Life

Breath

Energy

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