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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator say, in Chapter 4, that he got himself to see the middle of the story?
(a) By thinking about what a Martian observer would see
(b) By thinking about the moments when he learned the story himself
(c) By thinking about writing it as a treatment for Nova
(d) By thinking about telling it to a child

2. How does Ishmael say the aeronauts proceeded to learn to fly?
(a) By controlled experiments
(b) By following inspirations from their dreams
(c) By trial and error
(d) By research and observation

3. What does the narrator find when he returns to the office building in Chapter 10 after several days away from Ishmael?
(a) Ishmael has died
(b) Ishmael is sick
(c) Ishmael will not talk to him
(d) Ishmael has been evicted

4. What does the narrator say is new about Ishmael’s expression at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Twinkle-eyed playfulness
(b) Gloominess
(c) A searching gaze
(d) Mocking raillery

5. According to Ishmael, which is NOT a ‘trick’ the gods played on the Takers?
(a) Neglecting to write down their laws for the benefit of men
(b) Failing to create man after a special fashion unique in nature
(c) Refusing to put the world in the center of the solar system and universe
(d) Not exempting man from the laws that govern populations of animals and plants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps the narrator from returning to Ishmael the next day, after discussing Adam and Eve?

2. What scenario does Ishmael describe in Chapter 7, which horrifies the narrator?

3. In Chapter 7, what law does Ishmael say he is looking for?

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

5. How does Ishmael propose, in Chapter 7, to learn how they can find out for themselves how to live?

(see the answer key)

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