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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago did the Takers’ story come into existence?
(a) 20-30 thousand years ago
(b) 2,000 years ago
(c) 200-300 years ago
(d) 10-12 thousand years ago

2. How does Ishmael characterize the notion that agriculture started in the Fertile Crescent?
(a) He says that it is undisputed
(b) He says that it has not been proved yet
(c) He says that it is an old hat
(d) He says that it is subject to much debate

3. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?
(a) He is a student of it
(b) He is unaware of the details of Nazi rule
(c) He has always gone out of his way to avoid learning about it
(d) He is moderately well informed about it

4. 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) Humility
(d) Gratitude

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 2, about the path he will take the narrator on?

2. In Chapter 5, what perspective does Ishmael say the narrator should look at the world from?

3. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?

4. When does the narrator recognize Ishmael in Chapter 1?

5. In Chapter 4, why does the narrator say he does not display the emotion he wants when the narrator finally realizes the truth of what Ishmael has been talking about?

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