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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of act does Ishmael say the agricultural revolution was?
(a) Spiritual
(b) Intellectual
(c) Technological
(d) Social

2. According to Ishmael, which is NOT a ‘trick’ the gods played on the Takers?
(a) Refusing to put the world in the center of the solar system and universe
(b) Failing to create man after a special fashion unique in nature
(c) Neglecting to write down their laws for the benefit of men
(d) Not exempting man from the laws that govern populations of animals and plants.

3. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?
(a) As a dwindling to irrelevance
(b) As a fight that was defeated
(c) As a movement that died in a crackdown
(d) As a cooptation by corporations

4. For whose benefit does Ishmael say the Leavers accumulate and preserve knowledge?
(a) The community of life
(b) The creatures they are responsible for
(c) Themselves
(d) Their food supply

5. How does Ishmael say people think about prehistory, before the agricultural revolution?
(a) Loathsome
(b) Intriguing
(c) Idealistically
(d) Appealing

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 7, Mother Culture says about humanity’s relation to nature’s laws?

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

3. What does the narrator find when he returns to the office building in Chapter 10 after several days away from Ishmael?

4. What is a paean?

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

(see the answer key)

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