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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?
(a) That we owe someone an enormous debt of gratitude
(b) That we can do what we want with it
(c) That we have to find its proper owners
(d) That we have to take care of it

2. What is the narrator’s reaction when he hears the rival creation story Ishmael tells in Chapter 4?
(a) He is furious
(b) He does not understand it
(c) He is amused
(d) He sees the point immediately

3. How does Ishmael characterize man’s progress, once he discovered agriculture?
(a) Meteoric
(b) Fits and starts
(c) Slow, till he learned how to navigate the ocean
(d) Plodding

4. What has the narrator’s coldness become, now that he mentions it to Ishmael a second time, at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) A character
(b) A symbol
(c) A trope
(d) A motif

5. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?
(a) 2-3 thousand years
(b) 200 years ago
(c) 2-3 million years
(d) 300 years ago

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

2. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?

3. What does the narrator say he does with the newspaper the first time he reads Ishmael’s ad?

4. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?

5. What does the narrator say made the difference between men before and the men that live now?

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