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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Upon answering the ad, what does the narrator say he finds in the room when he goes in?
(a) A bookcase
(b) A set of tools
(c) A stove
(d) A phonograph

3. What does Ishmael say is the pinnacle of the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) God’s laws
(b) Man himself
(c) Literature
(d) A just society

4. What manipulation does the narrator say man had to learn in order to master his environment?
(a) How to manipulate the production of goods
(b) How to manipulate his womenfolk
(c) How to manipulate his food supply
(d) How to manipulate trade

5. What does the narrator find on the arm of his chair during his third dialogue with Ishmael?
(a) A tape recorder
(b) A notebook
(c) An ax
(d) A camera

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?

3. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 5, is man’s purpose on the earth?

4. How does Ishmael respond when the narrator says that he does not believe that he is part of a story?

5. How does Ishmael say the gods must have seen the world before man, according to the narrator’s culture’s story?

(see the answer key)

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