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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, how does the narrator say men used to live before they became men?
(a) Like every other creature
(b) Like the chosen creatures
(c) He says that they were always men
(d) Like the least noble creatures

2. What does Ishmael say, in Chapter 5, is man’s purpose on the earth?
(a) To rule it
(b) To fulfill it
(c) To perfect it
(d) To dream it

3. What does Ishmael say is the premise of the narrator’s creation myth?
(a) That the world is made for man
(b) That man is an exile in his consciousness
(c) That man belongs in the midst, not on the top of the community of life
(d) That the world is a mystery no one understands

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Ishmael say he was truly born?

2. How does Ishmael characterize man’s progress, once he discovered agriculture?

3. What event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?

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

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

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