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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?
(a) In his earliest experience with his family
(b) A little at a time
(c) All at once in church
(d) Systematically, in school

2. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 8, he would be looking for?
(a) What the people said about their behavior
(b) Places where people’s stories were contradicted by their actions
(c) What the people did not do
(d) What the people did

3. Where does Ishmael say people were looking, when they came to the conclusion that man had undermined the universe’s plan, that he would rule nature?
(a) To the order of the cosmos
(b) To the squalor of cities
(c) To human history itself
(d) To the tragedy of warfare

4. In Chapter 6, what does Ishmael say is unobtainable in the narrator’s culture?
(a) An orientation to natural laws
(b) Freedom from guilt
(c) An understanding of the goal of human culture
(d) Certain knowledge about how to live

5. What is the second thing that the narrator says the Takers do, which is not done in nature?
(a) Turn killing into an abstract law
(b) Steal other animals’ food
(c) Sell their produce
(d) Deny competitors access to food

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator have a hard time identifying the creation myth of his culture?

2. In Chapter 3, how does Ishmael tell the narrator to think, when he tries to get him to see the myth of his culture?

3. What pressure does the narrator say he feels to act out his culture’s stories?

4. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?

5. What does the narrator say is the first thing that the Takers do that no one else in nature does?

(see the answer key)

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