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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.
Multiple Choice Questions
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) A motif
(b) A symbol
(c) A character
(d) A trope
2. Why does the narrator say he feels a particular feeling after taking a few days off from his discussion with the narrator in Chapter 8?
(a) Because he is confident that he can use his new knowledge to change things
(b) Because he expects to be abandoned once he has finished Ishmael’s teachings
(c) Because he is seeing clearly for the first time in his life
(d) Because he does not believe that he can change anything himself
3. How does Ishmael say that men see the ruin of nature, according to the narrator’s culture’s mythology?
(a) As the visitation of god’s judgment
(b) As the plan nature had for mankind
(c) As the price to be paid for ruling the earth
(d) As the result of God’s plan
4. In Chapter 6, what does Ishmael say is unobtainable in the narrator’s culture?
(a) Freedom from guilt
(b) Certain knowledge about how to live
(c) An understanding of the goal of human culture
(d) An orientation to natural laws
5. How does Ishmael say the followers of Copernicus convinced people to change their view of heliocentrism?
(a) By discrediting the proponents of heliocentrism
(b) By getting them to pay attention to that was really there
(c) By fighting in court and in classrooms
(d) By censoring heliocentrism in journals and textbooks
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Ishmael say the gods must have seen the world before man, according to the narrator’s culture’s story?
2. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?
3. What does Ishmael say he can offer the narrator in Chapter 3?
4. In Chapter 5, how does the narrator characterize the world without man?
5. What does the narrator answer when Ishmael asks him, in Chapter 5, what man’s destiny is?
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