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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is the purpose of Mother Culture’s story?
(a) To teach the listener how to fulfill him or herself
(b) To give the listener power
(c) To weed out the weak from the strong
(d) To put the listener to sleep

2. When does the narrator’s creation story begin?
(a) 4 billion years ago
(b) 2 thousand years ago
(c) 10- 15 billion years ago
(d) 250 thousand years ago

3. What does Ishmael say the narrator will be the result of learning what he is teaching?
(a) He will go to war
(b) He will want to become religious
(c) He will become a writer
(d) He will be isolated

4. Why does the narrator have a hard time identifying the creation myth of his culture?
(a) Because the creation myth is a mystical secret
(b) Because creation myths are not myths to people who tell them
(c) Because he has been blinded by a limiting ideology
(d) Because he never took the religious classes where he would have learned it

5. What does Ishmael say he wants, in Chapter 4, when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?
(a) Terror
(b) Astonishment
(c) Gratitude
(d) Humility

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say the conquest narrative in Chapter 6 ends?

2. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?

3. How does Ishmael characterize the gods in his description of their debates?

4. Why has the change in Chapter 9 come about?

5. When does Ishmael say the event he put at 8,000 B.C. on his timeline ended?

(see the answer key)

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