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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 5, man did once he made the development that distinguished him from his ancestors?
(a) Set about mastering the world
(b) Set about learning from the animals
(c) Set about discovering himself
(d) Set about telling stories about the exile from the Garden

2. In Chapter 5, how does the narrator characterize the world without man?
(a) Post-apocalyptic dreamscape
(b) Bloody jungle
(c) Raw material
(d) Paradise

3. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 6, is the problem with his culture’s story?
(a) The narrator says that there has been a strong conservation movement, opposing industrial progress
(b) The narrator says that conquering the earth has provided freedoms that are worth the earth’s destruction.
(c) The narrator says that technology has sped up the destruction of the earth so much that no one can stop it
(d) The narrator says that conquering the earth has meant destroying it

4. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?
(a) He characterizes them as mindless drones
(b) He characterizes them as panicked fish in a school
(c) He describes them as animals in a stampede
(d) He describes them as silly children

5. What does Ishmael say has been the result of the Takers’ interpretation of the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?
(a) To produce a paradise on earth
(b) To bring the world to its knees
(c) To bring the benefits of civilization to more people than ever
(d) To establish one or two just civilizations

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ishmael say mankind’s flaw is?

2. What end does Ishmael say he foresees for the Takers’ culture?

3. What does Ishmael say is mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

4. How long does it take the narrator to come up with the laws Ishmael asked him to define?

5. What terms do Ishmael’s terms ‘Takers’ and ‘Leavers’ correspond to?

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