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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?
(a) People in socialized countries
(b) Urban poor people
(c) The very rich
(d) A few thousand savages worldwide

2. What is a koan?
(a) A riddle
(b) A secret.
(c) A paradox
(d) A spur to meditation

3. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?
(a) If he wanted to farm, he would have to kill off the hunter-gatherers
(b) If he stayed in one place, he would be subject to wars
(c) If he traded with other cultures, he would lose his women
(d) If he stayed in one place, he would exhaust his food supply

4. What does the narrator say grew where his idealism had died?
(a) A sense of rage
(b) A scar
(c) A sense of dread
(d) A tumor

5. How does the narrator say, in Chapter 4, that he got himself to see the middle of the story?
(a) By thinking about writing it as a treatment for Nova
(b) By thinking about what a Martian observer would see
(c) By thinking about telling it to a child
(d) By thinking about the moments when he learned the story himself

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael characterize the people who recognized the mythology of Hitler’s rule, but went along with it anyway?

2. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?

3. What does the narrator say was removed when man learned to farm?

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

5. What does the narrator say the ad in Chapter 1 was looking for?

(see the answer key)

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