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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?
(a) That we can do what we want with it
(b) That we owe someone an enormous debt of gratitude
(c) That we have to take care of it
(d) That we have to find its proper owners

2. What does Mr. Partridge tell the narrator when he inquires at the Sokolow house in Chapter 10?
(a) Where he can find Mrs. Sokolow
(b) That Mr. Sokolow’s daughter had died
(c) Where to find Ishmael
(d) Why the rent was cut off

3. What scenario does Ishmael describe in Chapter 7, which horrifies the narrator?
(a) A jungle where the animals have committee meetings
(b) A city where every plant and tree is ordered
(c) The meetings of the gods, where the gods do nothing but bicker
(d) A city where the neighbors eat each other

4. What knowledge does Ishmael say the gods have that allows them to rule the world?
(a) Knowledge of good and evil
(b) Knowledge of life
(c) Knowledge of death
(d) Knowledge of justice

5. What does Ishmael say he wants, in Chapter 4, when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?
(a) Gratitude
(b) Astonishment
(c) Terror
(d) Humility

Short Answer Questions

1. What subsequent interruption kept the narrator from returning for another few days in Chapter 10?

2. What is the narrator’s first strategy for reconnecting to Ishmael in Chapter 10?

3. What reason explains the change of circumstances when the narrator returns to the office building after several days away from Ishmael in Chapter 10?

4. What does the narrator say is new about Ishmael’s expression at the beginning of Chapter 7?

5. How does Ishmael characterize the gods in his description of their debates?

(see the answer key)

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