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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whose perspective does Ishmael tell a rival creation story in Chapter 4?
(a) A gorilla
(b) An indigenous person in Asia
(c) Someone from another planet
(d) A jellyfish

2. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?
(a) Comfort
(b) Curiosity
(c) Tenderness
(d) Terror

3. What does Ishmael say the world was created for, in the narrator’s story in Chapter 4?
(a) Man’s use
(b) The fulfillment of divine ideas
(c) The fulfillment of each of its creatures
(d) No purpose at all

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

5. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The war between good and evil
(b) God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
(c) God’s creation of the universe
(d) The evolution of man

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?

2. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?

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

4. What does Ishmael say he wants, in Chapter 4, when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?

5. What is the literary term that describes the narrator’s directly addressing the reader?

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